Another Point

Another point I don't like about the agreement reached to get NSA director Condi Rice to testify is that instead of having private sessions each with Bush and Cheney, the commission must speak with them jointly in one session.

This shouldn't be a big point normally, but Bush and Cheney are rarely on the same page. I would think it would be far more illuminating to speak to them each separately. When police need to interview a couple or two siblings, for example, one of the first things they do I imagine - or gleaned from Court TV - is that they separate the two to see the differences in information presented. By the time they're interviewed, I imagine Condi will already have testified in public. This gives them a story line with which to adhere.