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you are providing a really valuable service.
i might have a slightly different reading on this Holder comment than you do:
Ironically, the account of Holder's ACS speech that Digby cited (I haven't been able to find the full text of Holder's speech) claims that Holder said "it was disgraceful that the Supreme Court 'had to order the president to treat detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention'" -- a criticism that would also seem to apply to Holder's early view that detainees were not entitled to Genvea protections.
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Perhaps what Holder was saying is that it was disgraceful that the President was so dismissive of detainees' rights that the Court had to intervene to tell him that they still had certain rights. Know what I mean?
Keep doing what you do. It's really important to keep the light shining on this stuff.
