One thing that Joan McCarter picked up on that I hadn’t really thought about is that the Bush administration and the Intelligence Community did pick up some pieces of high value information through their torture....
Read MoreThe more I think about all these torture revelations, the more I come to the realization that the blame for this is spread so far and wide, between parties, agencies, departments, leaders, and the compliant media, that we all...
Read MoreDid Abu Ghraib shock your conscience?
Read MoreThe thing Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand, and that perhaps Orval Faubus could have explained to him, is that history brings a shithammer. It might have felt like segregation was a reasonable position at the time, but...
Read MoreI just got through watching press secretary Robert Gibbs do his daily White House press briefing. Ninety-percent of the briefing consisted of various beat reporters acting like panicked schoolchildren at the idea that the...
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