What Zepgirl said on the release of the "truly guilty". I'd only add that the discarded tainted evidence is discarded for a reason. As has been pointed out millions of times on this site, tortured "evidence" isn't worth crap in terms of uncovering the truth.

As to the defense based on "inheritance", let's just establish that anyone with 2 brain cells firing in sync knew years before the 2008 election about the problems with Gitmo, torture, etc. that the Bushies had created. Everyone knew that the next POTUS would have to deal with these problems; Obama said he would deal with them in accordance with our constitution.

So what are we supposed to believe - that Obama thought he was running for Prom King and on January 20 he discovered he was to become POTUS? That he thought he was following the presidency of Mary Poppins? Get real. He knew the problems, said he would fix them, then betrayed his supporters.

It's not just the torture/Gitmo issues that have been so treated by the Obama administration.

You can see the same thing happening with regard to lobbyists (welcome to the White House, Monsanto). Everyone knows why politicians welcome lobbyists and why lobbyists exist. Obama knew that when he said "no lobbyists in my administration". Now you can't count the lobbyists in his administration. He suddenly woke up in January and discovered the "value" of lobbyists?

Your defense of the man makes him look like a simpleton to save him from looking like a crook. Is that the change we can believe in? (Especially following a POTUS who was both a simpleton and a crook.)

Have we become a nation of cowards? Jim's hypothetical killer is not an unstoppable force. Have we become a nation of sheep? (Evidently, yes.) Just because someone is intent on doing harm is not an indicator that they will inevitably be successful.

The simple fact is, that just can't seem to get through, is that THE TERRORISTS CAN'T ACTUALLY HURT US. There are 300 million plus Americans; what kind of actual threat to you and yours can some impoverished idiots living in caves half way around the world actually pose?

You know how the Brits handled the IRA, how Israel the PLO? They toughed it out when they took a few pin-prick hits and didn't panic.

So a few terrorists we can't convict may go out there and try again. If they try it in Iraq or Afghanistan, which is what is likely, they'll probably be dead terrorists pretty soon. Or maybe they'll bomb something in the US. You'd have a better chance of being killed by lightning than in that bombing. 300+ million, remember?

We have become a nation of weenies, and probably deserve to get beaten up on the playground.

While I held out a little hope that Obama might, just might, be different from Bush and bring about some much needed change as he so often promised, I no longer suffer from that wishful thinking. Obama IS Bush; just a smoother, more oratorical version. And why wouldn't he be? He is a product of the system. Remember, this guy received a record amount of corporate donations to get elected. I really don't think any President calls the shots anymore. They are beholden to the elite that got them elected and they know what happens when they do not toe the line the elite wants them too. I recently finished reading Russ Baker's "Family of Secrets". It really opened my eyes about how this country really works now, and caused me to seriously revise my expectations regarding the political system. Even if you believe only half of what he wrote, it is enough to disabuse you of any notion that the US is still a free society where all men are equal and that there is a fair political process. Disclaimer: And yes, I do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, the Twin Towers were brought down solely by airliners crashing into them, or that there is a Santa Claus.

The United States is bankrupt. If China wants to call in our debt, they can do so at any time and we'd be fucked. Except, the US has the world's largest military and they are stationed all around the world. This protects our hegemony and prevents China (and Japan, where we have 35,000 troops) from calling in that debt. In other words, the continuation of perpetual war is the only card we have left to play in this game of full-spectrum dominance. When you have to continue wars indefinitely, you also have to go along with all the trapping of empire - torture, rendition, loss of habeus corpus, etc.

The US certainly does owe a lot of money to other countries and one being China but China can't call in their loans either causing our economy to collapse. Why? Because their economy is too dependent upon selling us lots of their goods and trading with us for things they need. So it's more a bad marriage of economic convenience to both countries to continue this way.

However our huge debt with China doesn't allow us to dictate much of anything to them.

I think we agree that attempting to maintain our empire is bankrupting our country and needs to stop.

'another black mark on the Obama administration’s promised transparency."

ummmmmm...

let's see i fired.

he gets my tax dolars regardless.

e is aware [c.c. busie/kerry debate and thoe lost seconds, the blank stare andwell, let's just turn the whole thing over..it's only paperwork]

darpa yesterday 'bragged' about an unmanned vechile to hit utspace, to spy [gasp!] on the world!

virgin galatic is firing off a planned space hotel [they need police i suppose way up there], then fired 600 [more of my tx dollars, when i work, and the insults to go w/ them]

parrarel universe?

follow gitmo news, now my life is only going to contunue to get fired.

am i on a timer?

i writing about, do i get one big huge jolt at aplanned date? unbeknowest to myself? more r less?

can i be close to some morphone for the big event?

no? okay...i can gaurentte i'll cuss my ass off, thru the puke on my way out.

feel better?

http://www.google.com/patents?q=darpa+neural+targeting&spell=1&scoring=1&output=rss

i dont need a 'jock strap"

a real investigation, say FBI or nsa idiot i have at a blog, or just the lcoal police, might be start. arrests, trail, pujtive and an reala island vacation. [see ya in 6 months]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/health/13iht-13psych.17789939.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

And the users of some sites have found the support of Jim Guest, a Republican state representative in Missouri, who wrote last year to his fellow legislators calling for an investigation into the claims of those who say they are being tortured by mind control.

"I've had enough calls, some from credible people — professors — being targeted by nonlethal weapons," Guest said in a telephone interview, adding that nothing came of his request for a legislative investigation. "They become psychologically affected by it. They have trouble sleeping at night."

He added: "I believe there are people who have been targeted by this. With this equipment, you have to test it on somebody to see if it works."