JOHN CARLISLE, NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: ... oh, yes, he [Soros] is most certainly still making money. As you say, he's worth $7 billion. And he primarily makes money through currency speculation, speculating on stocks, speculating on bonds. But most of his wealth, in the past, has come from, basically, betting on currencies, whether they'll appreciate or depreciate.

This has caused some controversy because he's been accused of profiting from people's misery by selling currencies in places such as Asia or Great Britain, and making money off the devaluation of those currencies.

O'REILLY: All right, so this is a guy who, if word gets out that he's betting against your currency, as he did some years ago in Britain with the pound, the then pound, if word gets out that he's saying your currency is going to go flat, then people sell just because he's saying that, correct?

CARLISLE: Yes, absolutely. He was, arguably, certainly at that time, the most influential currency speculator. He certainly commanded a tremendous amount of money, billions and billions of dollars.

O'REILLY: So he's a capitalist tool this guy. He's using the capitalist systems, the financial markets to enrich himself, correct?

CARLISLE: Oh, yes, yes. He's quite...

O'REILLY: But his political philosophy is so far left it's almost socialist.

CARLISLE: Yeah, he's almost schizophrenic in some respects. And when he's been criticized for some of his currency speculation deals, he's said, "Well, maybe we should have governmental institutions, international institutions to take over the process." I mean, he makes money by capitalism, but then he turns around and criticizes the capitalist system for being amoral.

O'REILLY: Now, how powerful do you believe he is within the Democratic Party itself? When we have them having to ask for a meeting, I mean, 11 of them, that's a lot of juice, is it not?

O'REILLY: When Mel Gibson -- you know, a thousand times more juice than these guys. People go, all right, we got it.
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COSTAS: Guys being on juice is a big, big factor.
O'REILLY: Right. And it's cheating.
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SIMMONS: Yes. And if you all don't want to drink Pimpjuice, drink DEFCON 3, Russell Simmons' beverage company.
O'REILLY: You can bet I won't be drinking any Pimpjuice. Thanks for coming in

Mercenaries Hung out to Dry: Afghan courts sentence former U.S. officers to 8 to 10 years in prison (link)
The Pentagon seems to have been directing these former special forces officers who just got sentenced to prison for torturing suspected terrorists in Afghanistan. But video taped conversations verifying this link have been pretty much ignored in the Afghan courts, and no attempt has been made to verify their authenticity. It looks like the pentagon has simply cut these intelligence operatives loose for fear of the liability they might bring upon higher ups. If this really is the case, and military operatives are being disowned by their superiors when they become inconvenient, it seems that the accompanying damage to the cohesiveness and trust among our intelligence units would be seriously compromised. Why aren't these cases being investigated more thoroughly, and why aren't U.S. courts involved? By the geneva convention, "mercenaries" of this sort are subject to local laws instead of the U.S. law that presided over abu graib, but that's no excuse for the U.S. to disown all responsibility if they were indeed providing assistance to the operative.