Local reporting indicates that the police were "seizing a dizzying array of items, including a machete, a hatchet, throwing knives, axes, bolt cutters, equipment used in rappelling – and three 5-gallon buckets of urine."

So there it is, our civil rights have just established a market value - 15 gallons of piss. Thanks George, Dick et al. History is already laughing at you.

Every time I hear McCain start a sentence, "My Friends....." all I can see is my stepsons conscripted into uniforms to enhance profits for multinational conglomerates.

There is no way for the present policies to be continued without additional manpower in the military. National Security is just that, and our policies continue to make us less safe, each and every day.

The media is in disarray. Segmented into hundreds if not thousands of microsegments, there is no outlet that maintains broad credibility across the geographical and sociopolitical spectrum. The 24 hour news cycle creates a void in need of filling, and it is done so with entertainment and distractions.

Even the progressive bloggosphere has a lens through which light bends towards the choir converted. The citizenry are not served by the endless scribbling and documenting about the outrageous crimes of this administration. We are ankle deep in smoking guns, yet their power is absolute because Cheney learned the one lesson of Watergate -- own the DoJ and all action will be blocked.

What many of us in the center-left want is a "Woodstein" WaPo moment circa 1973, the unearthed trail that leads to a discredited end. Yet editors and producers see their media in paradigm shift, and are more interested in self preservation and "balance" than any semblance of a Jeffersonian concept of the press.

It is an ultimate gamble of the Congressional leadership to bank on the elections to right the ship of state, a spineless response to a national catastrophe of epic proportions. There remains enormous untapped power in the 1st branch, and the refusal to do anything substantial is a disgrace.

So the scribes write on, and jaws flap away, documenting the moment, sure that they matter. Sy Hersh disclosed the plan to hit Iran two years ago. It's going to happen anyway. The press, from all the pandering and propagandizing to praiseworthy criminal disclosures is increasingly meaningless because Congressional inaction allows these psychopathic morons to continue to lead us off a cliff.

I hope that Glenn will be willing to contribute some of his time and expertise to the restoration of integrity to the OLC in the coming Democratic administration.

Perhaps "Professor" Yoo has written some secret memo on torturing reason and logic to its near death muddle. "The deceit here is manifest" and Orwell was an optimist.

I'm surprised that none of the above comments include Murat Kurnaz's obvious case against the US et al. He has a legitimate documentable case of what is so very wrong with this policy.

(60 minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3980799&channel=60Minutes)

Are we meant to wait for more innocents to die? Moazzam Begg (Taxi to the Darkside) died in our hands, and his blood stains our national integrity.

I don't get it. The outrage fatigue here domestically is palpable, and Cheney and his "man sized safe" continue to violate the very founding principles of our Republic. And yet there is no clear path to any accountability whatsoever. Continuing seems to lead to blanket pardons for all participants as W leaves.

I heard somewhere (possibly Prof Turley) that a single count of impeachment, even without conviction, prevented the President from exercising his power to pardon. Is this true? That would be a nice simple majority vote, which could be held the day after the election.

Even Andrew Sullivan has written that he believes W & Dick will be tried for war crimes, but it seems to me that if we want to prevent some dissatisfied customer, (like Addington etc.) from coming back in 20 - 30 years and doing this again, some concerted organized effort is going to have to be made to drive a wooden stake through the heart of the so called "unitary executive".

I am well aware that even remotely paraphrasing DRumsfeld is cause for deletion, but it has unfortunately been true. Nancy and Harry have been far to cautious with the facts this past session and I hope that Glen and his readership will support Wexler in his attempt to bring hearings about the impeachment of Dick.

http://WexlerWantsHearings.com/

Accountability avoidance syndrome is the plague that this administration will pass on to others to the detriment of all of us.

Norman Podhoretz Is using this metaphor to bang the Iran war drum. From TP:

"I believe President Bush is going to order airstrikes [on Iran] before he leaves office. Because he has several times said — at least twice to my knowledge — that if we allow Iranians to acquire nuclear capabilities, 50 years from now, people will look back at us the way we look back at Munich and say ‘how could they have let this happen?’"

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/01/podhoretz-bush-iran-attack/

What we are going to look back at may very well be Dennis Kucinich standing alone at the impeachment table wondering why Congress let Cheney start a war from a office without any constitutional authority whatsoever.