..for performing myriad onerous taks I simply don't have the stomach for.

BTW. VOTE for GLENN! (at the bloggerschoice awards...)

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Glenn,

I am a Verizon customer.

#1:What are the chances I can use their felonious crimes to get out of my contract?

#2: What about that guy from Qwest and the "insider trading"? Is that fallout from the politization of the Justice Department? I wonder if his name/company comes up in any of the documents that the administration is trying to keep secret?

Keep up the great job!

... One of the questions I've been mulling over is if amnesty might actually help us learn things. I understand its not usually used in this way, but I'm wondering about the value of "conditional amnesty" where telecoms are offered amnesty to come to the Hill and testify to Congress/Senate about what happened. Offering amnesty to telecoms could make their testimony far easier to get, and if amnesty is only offered to companies that testify in full (ie, if you don't voluntarily testify, you are subject to potential prosecution based on the immune testimony of competitors and other information, while those who testify voluntarily can say whatever they need to without fear of prosecution) then it may help to compel testimony about these abuses.

I don't really know if this is possible from a legal standpoint, but I don't see anything to prevent it. Plea deals are often offered conditionally based on elocution, and I don't see why the same terms couldn't be offered in an amnesty offer. It strikes me that its a very good way of compelling testimony, and while it would shield telecoms from future prosecution over crimes committed within this program, it seems to me telecoms aren't the main target. After all, even in the worst case, they were simply following the government's bidding, and from recent testimony, it seems in some cases acquiescing to government threats. Strikes me that the ones giving the orders were the ones committing the major crimes, not those companies who "followed orders" and threats from the government. Its about the people who made the demands and the requests, not the ones who fulfilled them ... it seems to me that conditional amnesty (a further condition is that any testimony that later proves inaccurate nullifies the amnesty deal) will help us get info about the people making the demands. Thats really what we are interested in, isn't it?

"Is there any individual less suited to make that judgment than Joseph Lieberman?"

probably not, but i'm sure bill nelson would give it a shot if he could ...

There's nothing like some good old rightwing propaganda to make sure you sound like you're on the "right" side, make people scared, lure them into illegal wars and stop them from thinking.

Sorry for venting - I'm getting so so very tired of this systematic hollow and false abuse of language to inject wrong images into people's minds.

I say that second paragraph 'hit' me hard. I say, "We've not taken your caste iron skillet stomach for granted. In addition to eating old neocon rusty nails for three meals per day- try some rutabagas stew with red tomato ketchup.

That cures anything. Toss over the shoulder a few grains of salt, and ya's may make it via a cold bathtub another day.

No fire the Persian neo-atheist. Govt. Employees? huh. Balance the diet.

But do take a bath with the Iraq bathers,

who we/me hope organize The Polar Bear Club.

Jump into the cold water and splash for peace.

Justice.

Pepito-bismol?

No tease or lie.

Hang on the slippery,

Green seaweed rocks.

and Bush scores!

No more habeas corpus, because Arlen Spector doesn't want to use more than his allotted time.

Gag.

She's off to the store to buy me some razor blades, and draw me a warm bath.

My father took me on a Chesapeake Bay, half/day, guided fishing tour. It was so windy and damn rocky. The waves had all aboard wobbly. Ever try to walk sober-looking in certain weather conditions while walking up to Capital Hill?

I saw two people who stopped fishing at sea that day. Sorry to share some memories here. They got so sea sick on the fish-trip 'they' ("conservative" drunks) ran to the vomit bucket at the same-same moment.

Gag.

Guess what? They crashed together. The numskull gop heads, bumped, and they both missed the bucket. yuck.

I feel nauseous too. I gotta go ___.

Don't wait for the tub water to get cold.

Just use a dry razor with no lather or Nair cream. Shave your hairy legs in-between your letters. Save soap for a rain day. Shower outside with dirty Salon readers.

No take bath. Stop the weak-creeps who stink. Say: If the war continues one day longer, no sex, no toothpaste, no ____! No eat barnicles found on lead paint under the boat, bamage. Be careful.

No cut self shaving ugly legs.

Let's have a ugly leg contest.

From the post

"But when asked about specific interrogation methods -- head slapping, hypothermia, waterboarding -- Mukasey says he cannot say if such measures are legal because he has not been "read into" those programs. He will, he says, take a "strong look" at those questions once he is Attorney General."

Is Mukasey saying here that he hasn't seen these documents yet?

Is this Administration now so paranoid that they won't let their own AG candidate be fully informed about the Dept's ongoing operations before being confirmed?

Do yourself a favor, and leave off. Kabuki can last all day, and the Senate Judiciary Committee is probably the least accomplished troupe on earth; even their makeup and costumes lack artistry.

I don't mind that, it makes some sense that an unconfirmed nominee should not be given the keys to the classified kingdom.

but the senate should not accept this non-answer. Is waterboarding torture? It isn't some quibbling point of law. They should be able to get a definitive answer from him and vow not to vote for his confirmation unless the answer is "yes it is"