Are their employees actual journalists? There is a gelatinous term. Journalist. On the other end is editorial/commentary/opinion. Is the editorial page not just exactly that, an editorial? Slack please. We give government officials lots of slack, and their the one's who torture suspects, spy on their own citizenry without warrants, erase lawbreaking like it's chalk on a blackboard and then let Wall St. and Richard Cheney point us to reality, why wouldn't the media become part of the collusionary class act of forward acting corruption and retroactive forgiveness? No autopsy, no foul. Commit your corporate level crime and then decide what's the best path:

Buy Congressional help, or pay a fine? Have your CEO take a cabinet position? Just don't forget, ACCEPT NO DISSENT FROM THE PUBLIC. Ridicule critics. Hire people to lie. Buy a media outlet........

Maureen Dowd has totally met my expectations.

First, you write, "Torture is fluid", I will remember that for eternity. The simplicity of that statement is phenomenal and remarkable.

Next, I think it's all about the conditioned perception the US government has created in the minds of the masses here in the US regarding just who exactly we are torturing, namely bad, bearded Islamic extremists that jump around like wanna be soldiers in mountainous remote training camps that have absolutely no relative value to humanity what soever. Contrast that to the image of peace loving fragile Females who yearn to breathe free from the enlightening vehicle of democracy. I use the term US government, but I don't bother including the media, because frankly at this point I see no difference. It's all about our conditioning en masse.

to be caught with a transsexual hooker somehwhere in the near future. Honestly Glenn, don't you know it's not civil to pick on the mentally handicapped?

You write: "But where those processes impede Obama's will, he'll just bypass them and assert the unilateral power to do what he wants anyway ,"

No shit.

Meet the new King, same as the old King.

Gen. David Petreaus as the GOP nominee in 2012. Seems logical to me.

say "Like other prisoners of War"? Are they fucking prisoners of war or not?

As you said before Glenn so perfectly, "Torture is fluid"

The act itself, the reverse engineered rule writings, the appeasement of Congress and the intertwining of the Military and private corporations spreading out the layers of culpability and finally the absolutely feeble, new President beautifully grabbing his ankles. Yeah, Fluid works for me.

Won't that be in the best interest of National Security as well, just to classifty the whole charade?

Rouge torturers?

The four corners of Yoo?

Short leashed legal magicians and Spineless politicians, bad combo.

Anyway, from Steve Aftergood if you have already seen it my apologies. Link at Sig.

they inflate the GOP's membership just right.... don't they ?

of Tom Delay, Bill Frist and George Bush, all Conservatives of course, while they were in charge of our government? What was Conservative in nature that happened while Bush was in office? Nation building, Oregon v Gonzales, expanding the size of the Federal Government? These hateful losers have the shortest memory in all of humanity. Oh, don't forget the troops! All 4500 of them that wasted their lives for naught, all at the hands of asshat Neocons like Richard Cheney and his remarkably arrogant attorney David Addington. We can spend what we want and have no accountability when it comes to wrecking a Sovereign nation,dislocating, killing, maiming, and dislocating hundred of thousands of innocent people, but don't You Dare subsidize poor people. Conservatism the greatest ruse ever.

No matter how hard those Stooges from the Bush White House days try to keep holding down the handle on the dumper, their collective lawbreaking fuck up turds float right back up to the top. Meanwhile, their complicit, golden knee padded courtesans in the media just reach for the lavender and their ankles.

As opposed to indifference or even worse the notion that it might be derogatory towards their precious meal ticket sources? How fucked up is that? But hey, I guess if the media accepts the idea that our government tortured and killed detainees while in custody as business as usual, it's certainly easy to understand why they think nothing of a few harmless scare tactics employed to help out the home team politically.

"Where is the sunshine, Mr. O?"

Thank god I didn't give a fucking dime to his campaign.

"You people"? Anytime someone starts off with that phrase I just have to laugh.

if the pattern isn't evaluated along with it. O gets something he wants first and then throws appeasement bones, which take a long time to chew and have the appearance of concessions, and what really has changed? Can we view the names of all the visitors from Jan20th on until now? Does the OPR have a current director? IF the White House has meetings at the VP's place at the Naval Observatory or over across the street at Blair House, do we get to see those logs too?

Wonderfully designed tactics created to kick the can down the street a little longer for nothing other than ruling class hiney protection. Oh please blow some more smoke up my ass.