is Feinstein, because I think she and Jay Rockefeller have the most to lose if this breaks wide open.

Unlike Feingold and the other Senators, I am betting Diane at least knew about the memos if not Bybees co-authorship when they were voting on him for the courts.

Will be interesting to see if she starts pushing back on this, as I suspect she would prefer to leave of lot of the facts about who knew what when, and who signed off on all off it buried.

I don't accept that the chances of impeachment are thin. Bybee has a lifetime appointment. Do you think that 20 years from now, everyone will think of the torture memos as "water under the bridge?" I doubt that. Personally, I do not expect that the monstrousness of these acts will fade with time. Instead, I think that looking back, the public will find this even more offensive than than we do at this time.

I am not entirely convinced that authorship of these memos rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor.  I realize these memos were relied upon by other officials but they weren't legally binding orders.  My understanding is that they are glorified opinions, and I have reservations about impeaching a judge because of a good-faith legal interpretation he made prior to taking the bench.  I disagree with the reasoning, but there has been a slim number of SCOTUS cases with a unanimous decision, proving that even the best legal minds in our country routinely disagree on what the law says and how it should be read.