that shouldn't be in leg irons? Don't they still have guys busting rocks into gravel at Leavenworth?

It's such a relief to see somebody in the media actually pursuing this story! A million thanks!

How can anybody look down their nose at the Roman coliseum when modern humans are still capable of such egregious abuses? Obviously: the responsibility for the torture came from the top. Thank you Salon, for helping to ferret out the proof that the average imbecile seems to require, to comprehend the obvious.

The only possible way to explain the 33% who think Bush is doing an acceptable job is that the typical lout of an American citizen has yet to transcend their basic animal nature.

The human race has such enormous potential, and yet continues to wallow in the squalor of complacency and addiction to obsolete habits of archaic thinking.

Everything this administration has done has been directed at taking steps backwards in evolution, from their despicable disdain for the poor to the suffocation of creativity by forcing the educational system into procrustean examinations that punish innovative thinkers, to the contemtuous trampling of basic human and civil liberties to the tune of ironic slogans and flag-waving.

Hello, human. Turn on your brain. It's time to overthrow the tyranny of the Republican holy trinity: greed, lies, and cruelty.

So let's say Congress asked Miller if he "met with" Cambone, or "talked to him", or had "direct discussions" with him - or even if he had "briefed" Cambone.

Miller would always answer in the negative, because he would claim, when caught, that it wasn't talking, or meeting, or having direct discussions - it was engaging in a "touchback" or a "info session" or whatever the hell semantic term they created this morning to support the deniability.

At least when Clinton said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," he was making a distinction made by every sexual active male with a steady girlfriend. "Baby, I didn't have sex with her!" After all, getting a blow-job is categorically different from actually having intercourse.

But what if that girlfriend says, "Well, did you get a blow-job?" Clinton would at least have the grace to look sheepish and say, "It was inappropriate, but yes... but that's not what you asked me."

It's like that old joke, "Well, I didn't sleep with her. We stayed awake all night."

Bush and his Republican cohort would swear that the mouth-on-genital contact had never happened. After all, you asked about a blow-job. They have classified the action as a "knob-polishing" and you never asked about that.

I used to think that you could write an article a day about the blatent and utter contempt this administration has for the truth and the lengths to which it will go to avoid accountability for its complete incompetence and perpetual mendacity.

I'm now convinced that you could write one a minute, every minute of every day, and still not scratch the surface of the corruption that is now the trademark of BushCo.

Iraq? Katrina? Abu Ghraib? Extraordinary rendition? Secret prisons? Illegal domestic warrantless wiretaps? Lying about all of that? What difference does it make? Because there are no consequences attached to any of that, we can look forward to 1000 more days of the same.

Even Carl Levin cannot seem to get the word "LIARS!" out of his mouth to describe Miller and Cambone. And if Democrats can't tell it like it is about the abysmal record of this morally bankrupt administration, then who will?

At one time Gen. Miller uses the 5 th amendment to not incriminate himself, at another he did not brief anybody, he just met with them, did not talk however , probably just saluted, another time thephone records show that he , hell no there were no phone records and the statements of the aide in respect of these records get conveniently blacked out. Privates, Specialists and Sergeants get convicted and jailed, bad apples they are, while the brass who is supposedly in charge of the institutions involved claim the Fifth and weasel and lie to cover their behinds and those above them up to and including the Master in the White House and his exceptional legal advisor Gonzales.International standards and treaties be damned, let the underlings rot in jail. Did those characters not swear on the Constitution? What happened to their oaths? What would happen to those PFCs Sgts etc. if they would try to cover their behinds like those way above them in rank continuously do? What they did is worth than cutting down an apple tree, and they would not aven have admitted something similar. Lying seems to work best, there are still 32 out of a hundred who trust them.