Yeah it is . I don't know what's funnier , the hypocrisy, the shocked surprise, the obliviousness to their own inconsistency, or the juxtoposition of hyperventilation about potential abuse of power vs cheering on actual abuse .

Warning them of the dangers of the Survelliance State usually brought all sorts of nasty accusations, nasty emails, or outright banning from "prestigious" blogs.:)

Posing the Do you want Pres.X to have that power? question brought either silence, or I'm-a-SeriousPerson-you're-an-Unserious-Fringe-Lefty assurance that " I want my President , whoever it is, to be able to protect us from the ter-rists." (Mark Noonan, for ex.)

TOLDYOUTOLDYUOTOLDYOUTOLDYOUTOLDYOUTOLDYOUTOLDYOUTOLDYOU!!!!

(Sorry, couldn't resist :)

Finally!

I've waited so long for the right-wingers to realize what they had done. And it is as delicious a moment as I imagined it would be.

-- erythrocebus

Most still haven't come to the realization that they did it.( With help from the jello-spined "opposition")

LOL! The most awesomely delicious serving of irony that I can remember. Thanks, Chef Glenn. ( & Jane ;) .

Can't wait for further episodes, where it's revealed that some of our intrepid newshounds were spied upon.

As for Andrea Mitchell......

Could anyone discern any difference between her interview of Jane and what Jane's defense attorney might say as they initially discussed the situation?

I know I couldn't.

I'm sure it never occurred to her for even half a second to ask Jane even a tangential question about the rank hypocrisy she was displaying in her "rage of denial."

Andrea Mitchell, MSE--MegaSycophant Extraordinaire

Someone should use this clip as yet another sterling example to freshmen journalism students about how precisely not to be a shill for the establishment...

-- Intercooler

Yep . Yet another example of media/government beltway incest. No surprise that it was Andrea Mitchell that provided the friendy venue. I remember a "conversation" earlier this year between AM and Olympia Snowe, that amounted to a campaign commercial for Harmon for DNI or CIA Director. I was wondering then ( & now) , what the history is with Mitchell and Harmon.

Last year,on that "prestigious"(;) blog RedState*, in response to Malkinite immigration hysteriacs, I jokingly suggested that they consider it a test. That is, if somone is good enough &/or lucky enough to live here for a certain time, 5 yrs, for example, without getting caught , then he/she someone that we should want on Team USA , ASAP. Besides, if we can't find them, how much trouble are they actually causing?

A few days later , I saw O'Reilly angrily and sarcastically attributing that attitude to Hillary , using the same phrasing, including five years as the time period. LOL! Saw some version of it elsewhere in the wingnutosphere shortly thereafter. Might be coincidence, but given the interconnectedness of the RWNoiseMachine, maybe not . ????

* Re Red State, my next post, on FISA, got me banned. :)

... of the road to hell.

Titowan, bamage, re impeachment , sign me up . ( Already did, mentally, awhile ago.) There's probably some courageous GOPer Congresscritters willing to get the ball rolling. Yeah, there'd be that whole huge-heapin'-pile-of-hypocrisy thang, but when's that ever stopped 'em?

As for specifics, supposedly Binyam Mohamed "harshly" treated right up to, & including getting on the plane. Start there. Then there's all those "militant" children in AfPak.

I wonder if Dennis Perrin would consider a 2012 run?

I dont care if the President doesnt tell me everything, I only care that they do their job and do what they believe to be in America's best interest.

-jerseygirl17

Don't mean to pile on but.., (well... yeah, if that's what it takes;) what they believe, or what is in our best interest? You don't want to know? Let somebody else do it? Is that a correct summary? (at sig) Knowing, and acting accordingly is part of your responsibility as a citizen, IMHO. You're not absolved by letting somebody else do it.

" Barack H. Bush"

ps : If anybody can find an online (free, & linkable) version of If Wishes Were Horses by the Spin Doctors, I'd love to know . Much of it seems an appropriate response to the Obamabots, and the decline of the empire . ( Sometimes music will sink in, where prose fails, even if , or especially by, irritation. ;)

Why don't the Evil Ones use their Super-Duper Scary Evil powers to

1.)Not get caught?

2.)Escape, if they get caught?

Instead of the worst of the worst, we probably have (in the few cases of actual terrorists) the dumbest of the dumb, the slowst of he slow, and the unluckiest of the unlucky.

Chambliss: "And we need to make sure that they don't have the rights given to those criminals that are on American soil, such as the right of habeas corpus"; Nelson: "even if you didn't run the risk of habeas corpus and some of the other rights that they might be able to assert on American soil, it's inappropriate").

There's just no limit to the stupidity and deceit that spews from their mouths.

If the prisoners are given habeus corpus hearings, two outcomes are possible : The government can show credible evidence , so the detainment continues, i.e. , nothing changes.The other possibility is that there is insufficient, or no evidence, and the detainee is freed.

Chambliss, Nelson, and all the other Chicken Littles seem to assume that the second possibility is the logical, and almost certain outcome of habeus corpus hearings. Therefore, their whole position is based on the assumption that the detainees are innocent , all while they rail against it. In other words, they greatly fear, and are adamantly opposed to releasing innocent people from prison. Yep, that is ~ limitless stupidity (& perfidity).