While the main focus on the Sunday news shows today was Hurricane Irene and the government response to the storm, on Face the Nation today, Colin Powell weighed in on the “explosive” new memoir being released by former Vice President Dick Cheney, and responded to many of the charges the former vice president leveled against him.

On Friday morning’s Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy slammed Gawker over a blog post that attempted to extrapolate the identity of the CIA agent responsible for tracking and killing Osama bin Laden. Doocy is correct that the site acted recklessly, but along the way, he gets a key fact wrong, makes an unexplainable comparison to the outing of Valerie Plame, and actually shows a photograph of the man in question, in stunning Hi-Def, to millions of Fox News viewers.

“We’re not in the habit of writing movie reviews,” begins the lede of this Washington Post editorial, which then proceeds to skewer “Fair Game,” the controversial film about former CIA Agent Valerie Plame — which the editorial dismisses as “Hollywood myth-making.” The Post uses several examples of its own reporting during the course of the Iraq war to dismantle some of the claims made by the film.

In the mind of comic-book author Benjamin Marra, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is basically a snarky Clark Kent. He’s given the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist the superhero treatment with his bizarre new comic,
The Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd. In it, his redheaded heroine breaks national stories, battles bad guys, and parades around in racy underwear, all while maintaining journalistic integrity.

After yesterday’s intimate pre-recorded interview with Matt Lauer on Today, Karl Rove stopped by the studio to talk to the host live about three of the most controversial issues of the Bush administration: the invasion of Iraq, the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, and the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal. Unlike yesterday, this Rove showed no signs of remorse or vulnerability, and stuck to his points against an increasingly combative Lauer.

Notoriously secretive former VP Dick Cheney may find his face all over the cable networks all over again, thanks to a recent ruling by federal judge Emmet Sullivan, . Deciding in favor of watchdog group, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, that records including FBI reports, notes, and interviews with Cheney associated with the investigation of the Valerie Plame leak will have to be made public under the Freedom of Information Act.