Preventive Detention Is a Non-Starter

Pres. Obama’s preventive detention idea, so far, is not going over too well, reports Glenn Greenwald: The backlash against President Obama’s extraordinary proposal for indefinite “preventive detention” — already widespread in the immediate aftermath of his speech —...

Cheney: Still Cherry-Picking After All These Years

Jonathan Landay of McClatchy goes through the long list of lies, distortions, and convenient omissions in Cheney’s “national security” speech yesterday: In his address to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy organization in Washington, Cheney said that the techniques...

Facts Be Damned

Charles Krauthammer got hammered (sorry, couldn’t resist!) by his readers for that column he wrote a few weeks ago on the two scenarios in which torture was justifiable. (If you don’t remember, the two scenarios were (1) the ticking time bomb scenario; and (2) any other time you think a detainee...

Condi’s Deceptive Response to Stanford Student

Remember this? (emphasis added by Cenk, not me): “The United States was told, we were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture, and so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against...

She Had a Bad Day

Condi Rice has been breathing the rarefied air inside that bubble she’s been living in for the past eight years. She got pwned on torture earlier this week by a student at Stanford — and she made an admission that she may live to regret if we ever see...

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,...