I swear she couldn't read the news of CIA video destruction without gagging - gawd!

Good little actress, she. (and yes, I said it that way to piss off her and her father.)

We need a hundred well-connected individuals haranguing Harry Reid 'round the clock - while we interrupt his sleep with a thousand pizza deliveries.

The answer to the procedural problem is simple: arrest for preventive detention, prompt indictment and trial in open courts, withholding top secret government information for judges.

There really is no other way, unless prosecutors are willing to offer arrestees deportation to any nation that will have them, and strip them of U.S. citizenship.

SCOTUS DID vacate the lower court...It said specifically that the President did NOT have the legal authority to detain citizens indefinitely.

SCOTUS DID vacate the lower court...It said specifically that the President did NOT have the legal authority to detain citizens indefinitely.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/galloway/story/63372.html

....says pretty much the same thing as the DFH crowd:

...his [Obama's] new attorney general, Eric Holder, and our representatives on Capitol Hill must pursue the truth with great vigor and without fear or favor. Those who took this proud nation to the brink of dictatorship must answer for that, and if they violated our Constitution, our laws and international law, then they must be brought to justice.

We cannot be the shining city on the hill if our gleaming buildings have dungeons and torture chambers in their basements. We cannot be a beacon of hope in a chaotic world if our hands are bloody and our ears still ring with the screams of helpless prisoners.

It’s time to get to work cleaning up those dark corners in the White House and the Justice Department and all the other departments that had a hand in George W. Bush’s excellent adventure.

expose themselves.

Like obscene flashers, they whip open their neoconservative raincoats and proudly decorate any diplomatic process by simply urinating on it. That's the best they can do.

It's old hat Chicago School, and I think Obama is onto them. This will take a bit more time. One or two more exhibitions of their inane discharge should do it. Despicable.

and replaced it with the witless hubris of Hiatt and his ilk.

Obama could restore it, but he doesn't want to be attacked from the right. (Needless to say, he IS being attacked from the right, but he doesn't see it that way.)

it is chiefly "civil libertarians" that are intent on prosecution of the Bush regime and its cadre of Yoo, Gonzalez, Bybee and other lawyers, sycophants and supplicants.

I happen to be a thinking authoritarian, a thoughtful conservative, and I don't need to be called a civil libertarian. In fact, that lines me up with extremists at ACLU and MoveOn, and social progressives at Medecins Sans Frontieres and Human Rights Watch.

She insults me!

The only reason Obama is slow-walking the legal process is because he doesn't want to drive the minority absolutely crazy. He's triangulating!!

Obama has problems to deal with, he has an agenda, and others can carry that water for him far better than partisan politicians and the putative head of the Democratic Party. In fact, the boil can be lanced only after it has flourished a bit or the infection simply returns.

But, then, what do I expect from the garbage beltway villager tabloid, WaPO. Poor Ruth. She has to whore out her prose for the echo chamber.

I'll line up with Conservatives on these matters for a change.

The driving forces are from the right: Murdoch, Clear Channel and the noise machine, a/k/a The Mighty Wurlitzer. See more here:

http://mfinley.com/list-wurlitzer.htm http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Wurlitzer_CIAHits.html

Here are several other resources:

http://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Wurlitzer-How-Played-America/dp/0674026810

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WILMIG.html

(Not to be confused with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdo0N2SBeAw )

It's been documented since 1970, exposed time after time by the mainstream media itself.

Until CIA is distanced from control by the elites, the oligarchs who think they know what the hell they are doing when, in fact, they make just as many mistakes as anybody, we will not have a "free press." It will remain that only a few who they permit will be allowed to broadcast the truth. No matter how loud we yell.

A "purge" is not in anyone's interest, but that is the only thing that can do it.

Santelli's pre-arranged "Chicago Tea Party" lifted the curtain a bit on overt media manipulation. Jon Stewart's Cramer pile-on is actually giving Santelli's scam quite a bit of cover.

But Santelli's outright coordination was the far more egregious crime. Let's not forget that CNBC is only about making money amid excess, t & a, and bullshit in what has become the biggest rigged game of all time: Wall Street "investments."