Without prompting, Reid offered this explanation on Lieberman at the Progressive Media Summit:

What were we going to do with Joe Lieberman? I know how to count votes. That’s been my occupation since 1998. One vote in the Senate means a lot. I was upset with some of the things he said in the campaign.

President Obama has drafted an order to close Gitmo and has moved to suspend tribunal proceedings at Gitmo, and the military panels have started entering the orders. As further evidence of the determination to immediately address, and bring a new sense of enlightened justice to, the detainees in Guantanamo, the Administration has imposed analogous continuance motions in pending Habeas cases in United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

In a thoroughly unsurprising move, Bush chose to make sure that Libby will continue to shield his own role in the CIA leak case rather than pay Libby back for taking the fall for Bush and Cheney.

Hours after taking office on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases….The request would halt proceedings in 21 pending cases, including the death penalty case against five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 hijacked plane attacks in 2001.

Inauguration Day was not kind to the Bush/Cheney cabal (nor should it have been for that matter). In many ways and forms, the outgoing cabal literally got pounded, but few cuts were as unkind as those delivered by Colin Powell.

Marty Lederman will take over the position that John Yoo used to have. And things have changed.

Things are going so well in Washington DC that even the Republicans are admitting we’re better than they are.

Howard Dean has time to get his picture taken for the front page of FDL. Me, I’ve got a bit of time to bitch about how Rahm treated Dean.

Lots of people out there–and it’s not pretty.

Today is the day. Now is the time. Change is in the air. Marcy is on the ground, we will update as she checks in. Consider this an open thread for anything you have to say. Spill your thoughts, emotions and hopes. Post any breaking news you see that I, and all of of us, might need to know. Change is here!