Pam Hess reports:

The Obama administration will not prosecute CIA officers who participated in harsh interrogations that critics say crossed the line into torture, CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta said Friday.

Asked by The Associated Press if that was official policy, Panetta said, “That is the case.”

Obama will hit the road next week to sell the stimulus package, with stops in Gary Elkhart, Indiana, and Fort Myers, Florida, Robert Gibbs just announced in the daily press briefing.

It turns out that one of the Bushie burrowers in DOD’s Office of Detainee Affairs was heavily involved in the Pentagon Pundits scandal.

A few days I ago, I chatted with Mike Lux, who was most recently a member of the Obama transition team as a liaison to progressives, about his new book, the present opportunity for dramatic change, and Obama’s call for post-partisanship:

New polling shows why Obama is happy to make Rush Limbaugh the face of the GOP.