The first military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay has come up with a predictable verdict of “guilty” for Saliam Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver, in the first US war crimes tribunal since WWII — but “not guilty” of conspiracy. The ACLU has called the trial “an embarrassment.” UCI law school dean ERWIN CHEMERINSKY will comment.

Also: As host to the Olympics for the first time, China wants to be seen not as a country with a low-wage capitalist labor system and totalitarian restrictions on politial expression, but rather as a friendly world power. JEFFREY WASSERSTROM will comment; he teaches Chinese history at UC Irvine, and his latest blog at the Huffington Post is “Five Things We Wish George Bush Would Read Before his Olympic Trip to China.”

Plus: Medical Marijuana is transforming the pot industry, making pot the leading cash crop in America in 2006 – when 20 million pot plants brought in something like fourteen billion dollars. DAVID SAMUELS of The New Yorker will explain – he spent six months with a pot broker in Venice, in pot grow rooms, and in other places where medical marijuana is produced, traded, sold and consumed in California.

-- today/Wed 8/6 on The Four O'Clock Report with Jon Wiener.