The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team. In recently revealed written testimony for the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice confirmed that the National Security Council discussed employing special interrogation techniques for the CIA. These techniques were based on methods used in...

Over the last few years, I've been working on a documentary about the scandal surrounding former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. It's an intriguing, stranger-than-fiction story of Washington, DC's tight knit world of members of Congress and the lobbyists who vie for their favor. Ultimately it exposes deep, corrosive fissures in our...

Is Alberto Gonzales stupid? That was the question posed at dinner last night. My uncle felt that there was no question that he is. I disagreed. I think that - within limited parameters - he's brilliant. And the proof is a moment from one of his performances in a hearing...