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Does anything illustrate more clearly that ultimate power is now invested entirely in the President, that we are now a government of men, not of laws, to turn the cliche on it's head? Tamm's crime was exposing the President's spying program, a program that his co-workers explicitly described as "probably illegal."
Now our media and political elites stand by giving mute acquiescence as he is hounded and pursued by what is amusingly called our "Justice" department.
Note the concern by Pelosi that the program had only a presidential imprimatur; to believe that vast warrantless wiretapping is unconstitutional and thereby a crime, is so 18th century.
Bob Baer, former CIA official, was on on the Rachel Maddow show last night talking about the CIA's view of the Congressional intelligence "oversight" committees. He said the view in Langley was that Congressmen should be treated like mushrooms: kept in the dark and fed manure.
Members like Rockefeller, Harman and Feinstein know their role is to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil, to create the appearance of democratic oversight when in fact there is none.
Why kid ourselves any longer? All hail the imperial President. Long live the King.
