Good, balanced comments, Glenn, with focus on the big picture at the top.

Yoo was quite a quisling as can be seen in his text interview here and if you watch the excellent PBS Frontline segment online.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/interviews/yoo.html

My understanding is that there are no statute of limitations on war crimes for any one, including heads-of-state. If they travel to any country that will enforce the Geneva Conventions, they will be indicted and held.

Interesting comments, Glenn.

Given your earlier post about the Haaretz-Dialog survey that 64% of Israelis, a large majority, want to have direct negotiations with Hamas...I'm unclear how McCain is benefited by saying that he's against it...??

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/27/hamas/

Just throwing red meat for fundraising...?

Another Walt/Mearsheimer twilight zone moment coming to light?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-mearsheimer6jan06,1,6831048.story

Great timeline of quotes, Glenn.

As internet news consumption has proliferated (and then Youtube in 2004 ushered in on-demand video news snippets), it has now become possible (FINALLY) to get accountability scores on pundits and news commentators.

This will help news consumers to (if they couldn't tell after a couple dumb observations) easily see who is full of it, more than others.

Smart commentators like Glenn can bring it together for us (along with Fair.org, MediaMatters.org, CSPAN.com and NewsHour.org).

And insidious, money-grubbing pundits like Morris can be seen for who they really they are: jackals who will shoehorn themselves into both sides whenever they're falling in the polls, to make a quick buck.

Interesting overview, Glenn; and thx for the "The Nation" story link from 2003. Wow.

I would point out that PBS has been unfairly excluded from this discussion. PBS NewsHour had a 12-minute discussion on the Pentagon media program the DAY after the Sunday NYT piece in April.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june08/tvgenerals_04-24.html

(Of course, the commercial networks were invited to the NewsHour segment, but they, ahem, "declined.")

Don't forget that a Miami hedge fund dismantled (i.e., killed) Knight-Ridder which got sold to McClatchy. Meanwhile Knight-Ridder's reporting on pre-Iraq was the best in the business...exposing the Administration's prevarications. And Moody's rates McClatchy's debt as super-low?

And Moody's has great creditability because they didn't whore themselves out to Wall Street during the derivatives bubble? Suure.

I'm sure this is all a coincidence. ;)