You get "paid to loaf in an office chair all day, rhapsodising on the ethical dilemmas posed by this program or that operation?"

Need an assistant? I actually did advanced study in Loafing/Rhapsodizing at the Harvard School of Ethical Dilemmas... I don't even need my own chair.

Ok, which of these are we going to keep and which are we going to throw away?

1. Waterboarding.

2. Kidnapping and sending people to be tortured in other countries.

3. Locking people away forever without their ever knowing why.

4. Putting people in a sleeping bag, beating them, breaking their bones and leaving them to die and then putting them in a refrigerator.

5. Interrogating a person, pretending to lose patience, pointing a gun at the person, pulling the trigger and when it doesn't fire, smiling at laughing at them.

6. Refusing to allow a person to sleep until they don't know who, what or where about anything.

7. Stripping people naked and then attacking them with dogs.

I know the list isn't complete. It's just what came to mind.

The only question is whether they're going to actually use your audio, or dub in some of their own commentary that makes for a plausible lip synch. I don't know if that matters or not, but it is an interesting choice on your part.

You get "paid to loaf in an office chair all day, rhapsodising on the ethical dilemmas posed by this program or that operation?"

I love how that Pajamas Media person goes on and on about how I have no right to opine on the Brennan matter because I never worked in the intelligence community, and then you get to the end and you find his bio line:

M. P. MacConnell is a novelist, historian and political analyst.

"We don't want to be known for torturing people."

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This pregnant phrase leaped out at me at once, before I read the subsequent comment.

Like his patroness Pelosi, this clueless, depraved reprobate has his head stuck so far up his ass that he apparently doesn't realize just how revealing his turn of phrase is.

Not "We don't... tortur(e) people", but, "We don't want to be known for torturing people."

In other words, if nobody finds out about it, it's OK.

Twisting his words? Hell, no! I'm untwisting them.

Greenwald, who has no background in intelligence, law-enforcement, diplomacy, or international relations, felt himself to be in a position of supreme moral authority in questioning the fitness of Brennan - a 25 year veteran of government ....

Translation: This guy, who has never tortured, never wanted to torture, never threatened, waterboarded or anything else, has the gall to question the experts (of torture, waterboarding, fingernail-pulling, etc.)?

The nerve!

...in response to this post. And then I deleted it. It just seemed hostile and unproductive; reading the news these days does that to me.

I'm not affiliated with any party, so maybe the allure of the Democratic Party eludes me. They really don't seem any closer to having ethical and consistent positions than the Republicans. I would feel dirty being associated with either.

I wasn't surprised in the least by this news. Maybe saddened a bit.

I guess I just need some sleep and a good meal.

so I'll quote one more item I found amusing (and stop):

This is a hallmark of the Netroots; they are bound and determined to bring about change [no!]. Working hand-in-hand with more traditional grassroots political organizations, and thanks to their decentralized structure, eager participation in fundraising, and ever-growing numbers, they stand a better-than-average chance of doing exactly that [good!]. Whoever has the money and the megaphones, as William Safire pointed out, will call the shots. As the relatively non-credentialed Greenwald showed through his pre-emptive destruction of John Brennan, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have the slightest grounding in the issues you rail over ['O'?!]. You merely need the highest hit-count.

Oh, Glenn, you're the sliver in the finger.

You don't get it, Glenn.

Remember Hugh Hewitt, squaring his shoulders and taking that final drag before snapping away his cigarette and staring back into the al-Qaeda crosshairs from the Laz-E-Boy in his lofty Empire State Building combat perch?

You have no idea what it's like, staring into the maw of death with nothing between you and the Enemy but a half-full bag of Cheetos-- ya big pansy, ya!

The democrats in congress are mostly useless. The US citizenry still seems mostly asleep. I think we need help from abroad. That is where most of the opposition to the continuation of torture is. How do we get at least one million folks from the rest of the world to write to Obama?

Your exposure of official corruption is greatly appreciated and truly brave, but it's becoming clear that it's useless. It does no good to challenge the liars, cheats, and thieves.

It's not even possible to effectively challenge the outrageous, outright liars on the comment boards, because it's impossible to get much, if any, support from other Salon posters, and Salon's editors evidently find the situation perfectly acceptable.

There are a few exceptions, like Scorpio, but it's impossible when nearly all have proven themselves willing to lay down and die rather than challenge the lying smear artists.

I've found that this is characteristic of America. The corruption is top to bottom and deeply infects American society in general. Half the country is in business to cheat the other half.

I'm waiting for something, anything, to restore my confidence in American honesty. I'm not holding my breath.

I don't want to believe that America is too corrupt to survive, but I'm not being given a choice. I'm being forced to believe that America is limping along on nothing but the remainders of its lies.

Bankruptcy won't finish off America. It has already succumbed under the weight of its own inequities. You deserve better. Amerika does not.

"Top Republican posing as a Democrat urges "continuity" for CIA, DNI, and interrogation policies"

FTFY

FTFY

Is this "Fixed That For You" or "Fuck This Fuck You"?

I'm not a fan of obscenity (!) but I wonder just what you're suggesting. I favor the former because I believe you're a repair-person.

Also, my dishwasher is broken. Can you be here between 6:00 and 6:00 o'clock, 2009?