For openers, Dodd criticizes the White House for de-classifying the so-called "torture memos" without having a follow-up plan for dealing with the fallout -- quipping, "I don't know who the genius was in the room that night."

That's cold, even for Dodd.  He knows just as well as I do, if not better, that "the genius in the room that night" was President Barack Obama.  It was his plan and his idea.  That's a slap in the face of Barack Obama from one of his own.  Nonetheless, however, Dodd's "follow-up question...What are you gonna do with that?" has a very evident answer for him.  He wants to take the battle to the former administration.  The same POLITICO article also reported:

When a questioner asked him if such a probe should go "as high as Cheney's office," Dodd interrupted to say, "You gotta go where you gotta go." 

Did I catch that?  "You gotta go where you gotta go."  Wow.  Dodd is prepared to take things as high as he can to get his own political agenda passed! Do you honestly think that if the former administration had been that of a Liberal Democrat he would say the same things?  No!  He obviously had no objections to questionable characteristics of President Obama's nominees, so why should he have objections to his policies, or the policies of a loyal Democrat of his ilk for example?  Dodd, is using policy to get back at political rivals so that he can get political points.  He is being a typical politician.  This is just another wonderful lesson in "Doddism."