We're on the road today, so here's an open thread to discuss the Bush-Cheney hearings, which won't be televised and are not being conducted under oath.

Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will meet jointly with the commission beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT for what is expected to be several hours of questions. White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and two members of his staff also will be present. One of the most pressing issues is the allegation that the administration failed to make terrorism a top priority in the face of what CIA Director George Tenet has said was a system "blinking red" with warnings.

Unlike the commission's televised hearings that produced some sharp exchanges, Thursday's meeting will not have cameras or a stenographer in the room and there will not be any record of what was said beyond note-taking...."If they thought it would help him, they'd televise it," James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, said of White House advisers. "And obviously they don't think it will help him, and so they are not."