sounds realistic --- somehow we have actually grabbed *the* terrorist mastermind that knows exactly where the bomb is placed and the exact time that it is going to go off --- and we managed to do this ahead of time. Sounds like a first.

So, we take this mastermind and torture him for awhile and assume that he will tell us the truth --- of course he would never, ever concoct some fake locations (maybe a few that they originally discarded, perhaps) --- or hey, maybe as he became progressively *hypoxic* from having water in his lungs he transposed a few numbers in that Manhattan or DC address.

No, instead, you and your neocon heroes would magically obtain the exact right answer and save the world just in time.

Maybe it's time to stop watching 24 and come back to the real world, you know, the one filled with "virtuous" far-right commentators and pundits...

This entire spectacle is so absurd it defies belief.

Our entire government has descended into a flurry of ass-covering that is so complete that we cannot even find a candidate for Attorney General that can "define" an accepted form of torture as torture. It all comes down to accountability and it is more than clear that the Bush Administration and it's enablers are dead set on not being held accountable for anything they have done.

I would love for McCain to stand up and read Nance's letter from the NY Daily news today in the Senate chambers and then just state that he agrees--- and ask the rest of those hopeless, spineless congressmen and women to join him in refusing to vote for this AG nominee. Joan is right-- if he can't call waterboarding for what it is, he needs to go back to retirement.

It's an amazing thing, my late father was a constitutional attorney, he died suddenly a few years ago at a relatively young age and for the first time I am somewhat at peace with losing him because what is happening in this country would have killed him in a much more painful fashion. Disgusting.

JT

it boggles the mind to think about what they managed to sweep under the rug when they were running things. I think we only saw the tip of the iceberg.

How anyone could fail to see that our Justice Department has been fully and illegally politicized is beyond me. The fact that they continue to deny that anything is wrong is simply indecent,

At this point, I'm looking forward to reading my grandchildren's history books about this entire gang -- should be a great read. Too bad it won't be historical fiction.