As you can see, I did an interview with famed, notorious, outrageous GOP political operative Roger Stone yesterday. We posted a preview of the interview today. But my favorite moment came when he was explaining his lack of support for President Bush and particularly the element of that non-support tied to Bush's terrible record on civil liberties. So at one point he's listing through the fact that various previous Republican president's had ever done such things. And as he's running through the list of past GOPers who didn't do wiretapping, he gets to Nixon, cracks a hint of a smile and says that "Nixon didn't do it governmentally," i.e., Nixon may have done it as a private criminal enterprise directed from the White House. But he didn't do it as a matter of governmental policy.

I'm not sure that's actually even true. But this fine-grained distinction was the moment of the interview I enjoyed most.

You can see the moment I'm talking about at about 3:10 into the preview clip below ...