Clockwise from top left: The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency; Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor before the Senate Judiciary Committee (AP); Surgeon General nominee Regina Benjamin (AP); Goldman Sachs tower in New Jersey (flickr/luismontanez)

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Sonia Sotomayor held the week’s center stage by definition. The first Latina on her way, it seems, to the U.S. Supreme Court. A wise Latina, we hope.

But all around, the news whirled on.

Secrets at the CIA and Dick Cheney and potential prosecution still in the headlines. Golden profit reports on a bailed-out Wall Street … bonuses to follow. Health care legislation moving on Capitol Hill. Casualties mount in Afghanistan. And Barack Obama channels Martin Luther King and Bill Cosby at the NAACP, saying “no excuses.”

This hour, On Point: Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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-Tom Ashbrook

Guests:

Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent at Time magazine. Her most recent article is “Time for Obama to Step In?”

Doyle McManus, columnist at the Los Angeles Times. He asserts in his most recent column, “The End of Obamania,” that President Obama “has fallen back to Earth.”

Jack Beatty, On Point News Analyst