"The White House says Obama hasn't changed, just adjusted. "He and the Administration have adapted as we have learned more and the issues have evolved, but there has not been an ideological shift," says spokesman Ben LaBolt."

Sadly, this may exactly describe the truth. What has Obama adjusted? His public position. He has always been ideologically in favor of lawlessness. He has, in spite of every coaches warning, simply adjusted his public position.

Based upoon your analysis of the law, the WSJ article by John Yoo is a clear example of academic dishonesty. John Yoo should be fired from Berkeley in advance of his war crimes trial.

The "missing" temperature change is likely tied up in the increased energy absorption associated with the ice to water phase change

When o when will we finally put cheney et. al. on trial and in jail where we will not have to hear or read about how he and others gladly tortured not only the guilty (presumably some of the victims did actually commit some sort of crime...jaywalking or something) but the innocent as well.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...I can't stop laughing. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha This analysis assumes that there is a dimes worth of difference between the insurance copmanies and the people in congress who are writing the bills. Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahah...can barely stop laughing ....can't catch my breath... call a doctor

Hmmm...would Microsoft spend $500 million to sabotage cloud computing? maybe

exactly my point

And now this...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/08/iran.missing.researcher/index.html

Our government cannot categoricaly deny that we have not kidnapped this man? Finally we will get the confession that we need to confirm that Iran has/wants the bomb.

Still missing the point. The President of the United States has ordered the kidnap, torture and ultimate murder (manslaughter at best) of otherwise innocent people in clear violation of our laws. There is ample documentation. Hell, Former Vice President Cheney essentially confessed to this on national TV several times. There is no moral ambiguity here. There are some things that are simply true. No aditional context required.

wg,

you seem to have missed the point. The point being that torture is inherently wrong regardless of who is doing it. We (the US) seem to think that it is ok for us to beat the shit out of kidnap victims because we are the good guys. We seem to miss the point that when we kidnap, torture and murder people that we are no longer the good guys.

Did you catch the vapids on the Newshour discussing the closing of gitmo tonight?

at least two of these "patriots" should be under investication themselves. Tenet for treason and Goss for his past and current role in Blackwater.

at any rate..she did what she did...she lost the match because of it and $10,000 (which seems like a lot of money to me) and did in fact act gracuously to Kim Clister's in the aftermath and during her post match interview. I actually think better of Serena for her masterful recovery of her composure after the event. You go girl

Surely you did not intend to compare the infantile remarks shown of Mac to Serena yelling at the ref and threatening to "shove the Fucking ball down her Fucking throat" while shaking a carbon fiber club. We do not know what she said when she went back after the ref a second time (the audio could not pick it up). It may be that Mac has done and said worse but you did not show that. I also recall that Mac was suspended for several months for a tirade in australia which effectively ended his career. At least he was never the dominant player that he previously was.

How do you spell nazi?

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2227112/entry/4

memo to self,

nader was right...prepare to be disappointed. ignore wife when deciding who to vote for.

It seems that logic would dictate that the british judiciary itself is now complicit in the coverup of torture? If, as Clive stafford claims, that is is against the law to conceal evidence of torture in Britain, then it seems that charges must now be brought against the british judge who ruled that he felt compelled to withhold that evidence? Everyone who touches this crap without doing what the law proscribes could/should be jailed?

Glen et al.,

Is it now time to start describing these actions as treason?

Glen,

Help me out here. I am a long time listener and supporter of NPR. What you and others have clearly shown is that NPRs reporting on this topic (and by inference any other topic) is at its best propaganda for war criminals. How do we effectively organize to take back National PUBLIC Radio from these propangandists?

Obama is insulating himself from political retribution by forcing the international community to indict him (Obama himself) on war crimes unless he relents and follows the law.

He then releases all of the information regarding torture, indicts, prosecutes and convicts Bush et. al... hey a girl can dream

It is time for

I seem to recall that we (i.e. US [as opposed to them]) shipped "detainees" to UAE for enhanced interogations?

Perhaps the Obama administration is actually pushing these arguments to their extreme in order to get a difinitive Supreme Court ruling on these issues. In the course of forcing/defending the Bush administration policies they intend to set up a situation where they are compelled to release explicit documentation regarding the high crimes of the Bush administration. This would eliminate the charge that they are engaging in political witch hunts. Pretty clever. Hey a girl can dream ...

Pitch forks and torches anyone?