This man, McCaffrey, Bill Clinton's enforcer of cruel and unjust American drug-war policy and sentences, as well as having been the American military commander directly abutting (overseeing?) the Saddam Hussein slaughter of Marsh Shiites and others in 1991 after Gulf War I, which was explicitly permitted and even encouraged by President George Bush the 1st (Iraqi helicopters, baby!), has to be satirized by Saturday Night Live, the only broadcast medium allowed to say anything halfway important.

Saturday Night Live is the only way to get NBC's and the other networks' attention these days. That's because it's the only thing the public pays enough attention to that's free to watch. Otherwise, it's all a tree falling in the forest situation. Actually, it should fall on Brian Williams and Mel Gibson's brother-in-arms, Charlie, but only to pin them down.

These network news executives and their anchors (dead weights?), including Blitzer and the Fox propaganda squad, plus the hate-radio all-stars, should be shipped in chains in steerage to The Hague when the time comes, along with their idols Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Kristol, Perle, Wolfowitz, Bremer, et al. Not kidding at all (well, maybe not in steerage). Serbia had the courage, remorse, and public morality to send Milosevic. The U.S. has.....The Daily Show!

Nuremburg principles equal justice and dignity for the individual. Network news equals conscious war-crimes complicity. And McCaffrey is a typically key operative involved in domestic and international policies of the U.S. that can only rightly be considered sadism in action. And he dares show his face and flaunt his corruption.

Love,

News Nag

I know this is going to sound utterly ludicrous, but the Obama administration knew all along that the state secrets case was being decided by what could be the most liberal Federal Court of Appeals in the country, which makes me think that the administration WANTED A DEFINITIVE JUDGMENT AGAINST BUSH'S STATE SECRETS POLICY and strongly suspected that the 9th Circuit would be obliging.

I'm sure there are various counter-arguments against this notion, and this notion could be endlessly naive, but various aspects of what's happened DO line up with the above hypothesis.

For instance, the desire for a negative definitive judgment would explain the discrepancy between Obama's campaign statements and his DOJ's approach. It would explain the hedging inauthentic-sounding explanation of the need for more time to study the issue. And it wouldn't be the first time this sort of ass-backwards approach has been used; in fact, it's not at all that rare a tactic.

It also would shore up Obama's homeland security credentials with the (disloyal) opposition and help provide a smoother transition and return to a (slightly) more civil libertarian approach to intelligence gathering.

So I'm just saying maybe the Obamans are a bit more clever than we reactionary progressive sorts think they are.

Or not.