As a sports fan, it's occurred to me how much common ground there is between athletes and executives of major sports teams and Beltway pundits and government officials.

On the one hand, we have athletes who deny taking steroids, such as Rafael Palmeiro, Roger Clemons, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds, despite the overwhelming evidence that they indeed did take them.

On the other hand, we have pundits like David Broder, Jonathan Alter, David Gregory, Jerkwad Friedman, et al, who not only deny they had anything to do with the irresponsible journalism they promulgated during the past 8 years, but simply ignore the roles they so clearly played and the things they said and wrote during that time, and voraciously defend themselves and those who lied us into war, committed torture, etc.

If one were so inclined, one could look at the whole Roger Clemons congressional testimony debacle, and simply replace him with our Beltway Pundit class (with at least David Gregory's hair and eyebrows), replace trainer Brian McNamee with the likes of Glenn, Rachel, and Amy, and replace the 7 year old vials and needles he kept with the torture memos and other evidence making clear what the truth is.

And with all that, replace Congress with......Congress, since they are the same ineffective, grandstanding, morally hypocritical do-nothing money launderers in either scenario.

And don't forget about our anonymous-seeking, truth-obfuscating government officials, who, like sports franchise owners and league executives, remain in the background, fervently scrambling to keep the lid on as much of the evidence as possible.

Oh, and Evan Thomas? He's the accidental "Jose Canseco" of the punditocracy, who, despite participating in the offending behavior full bore, at least is willing to leak out the truth about how it really is.

Jose Canseco = Evan Thomas

People, please don't feed the idiots. Asshats of such genetic purity are simply sociopathic in their thinking, and cannot be reasoned with.

Moving right along...

"it's" should be "its." Apparently the condition is contagious.

Glenn,

Once again the crack of your bat as you hit another home run accurately describing how our media really works in this country. Don't slow down, don't change subjects (for long), and don't give up that fight. Cracks are starting to appear in the dam. We'll provide the electricity, my friend, you keep aiming the jackhammer in the right places.

If we were to capture a senior al Qaeda operative in FATA today, and if his prosecution in civilian courts would jeopardize national security, what reasonable person would object to using the military tribunals Obama envisions?

Exactly what evidence is there to suggest that some AQ operative cannot be successfully tried in our current court system? When has our court system EVER failed to successfully try someone for his/her crimes, no matter how heinous?

Has our court system not tried internal spies? Has our court system not tried brutal murderers? Has our court system not tried domestic terrorists? The issue of dealing with classified information has been addressed time and again by Glenn, so that is a non-starter, too.

I am so sick and tired of the idiotic meme being promulgated that terrorist suspects cannot be tried in US courts despite zero proof that it would be any more difficult or risky than trying anyone else for any other crime.

If you're going to intimate or make such suggestions, then provide proof of why it's untenable or STFU.

What kind of a country commits brutal crimes and then insists that they can't be burdened with disclosure and accountability because they're too busy or because it's too burdensome?--Glenn Greenwald

Clearly, a country that no longer believes in (or cares about) a representative democracy, one that is run by men and not laws, and one whose greatest institutions are rotting away from the inside.

For all the many great things this country is, it is also all that stated in the sentence above. And it's those things that, if left uncorrected, will be the country's ultimate demise.