Just Add It To the List of Lies

Andrew Sullivan posts this video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5DaY2Uyu64[/youtube] Now the truth: Bush personally authorized every technique revealed at Abu Ghraib. He refused to act upon the International Committee of the Red Cross’s report that found that he had personally authorized the...

Morning Joke

Joe Scarborough flaps his lips, and out comes this: I don’t want to have a debate about the history of the CIA, but I do want to have a debate about what’s happened since September 11, 2001, and I can tell you what’s happened. We’ve figured out a hell of a lot about Al Qaeda,...

If the Policy Is a Crime, It Should Be Prosecuted

Under the Bush administration, it was policy to break the law. Under the Obama administration, it is policy to obey the law. But not, according to David Broder, enforce it: If ever there were a time for President Obama to trust his instincts and stick to his guns, that time is now, when he is being...

Porter Goss’s Dishonest Attack on Congress

It’s infuriating, but it’s entertaining, to watch the same people who spent the better part of the last eight years using lies, secrecy, deception, political maneuvering, and outright intimidation to run a global torture regime on foreign alleged terrorists, alongside a domestic illegal...

Take a Deep Breath, Look Under That Rock

There are a lot of arguments for not investigating the war crimes committed under Pres. Bush, and prosecuting those responsible for the torture regime. Paul Krugman demolishes every one of them: “Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.” So declared President...