It just gets weirder and wackier by the day. We took some time, eat some ribs, drank a lot and came back to the blog-a-sphere with the hope that there was hope...rhymes with dope. Glen Greenwald, writing in Salon, posted 7/13, continues to beat the crap out of the new/ old administration on the pseudo-investigations that Congress authorized when it legalized Bush's spying with the amendment to the renewed FISA act. Greenwald shows how lame a pseudo investigative tool is the IG Office in getting to the bottom of the crimes of the Bush era.
Greenwald goes on to rip the administration another one on it support for war criminals-unless they are from Africa. Obama made stirring statements about bring African war criminals to justice....just not our own. Well, it would be too messy he tells us and it would distract us from looking forward. What crap. I highly recommend Greenwald to you all...Yes, I was in southern Connecticut over the weekend!
It is freaking time that the euphemisms just stop about water boarding and other torture techniques. The Washington Post reporter Carrie Johnson's piece on Sunday July 12 drove me wild with is line...[acts]"that could be likened to torture." What the hell is she talking about? Everyone, from John McCain to the Post Office have characterized the interrogation methods in dispute as crimes and torture. The only problem here is holding anyone accountable for them. Posties get a grip...please.
Another Postie wrote a really reassuring piece on the mental fatigue and relentless grind of the White House. Michael Shear's piece (7/13) should reassure us all that people with little sleep and inhuman schedules are making life and death decisions for the nation. Gee, how wonderful is that! It is not the usual puff piece and actually asked questions about what and why are people doing this to themselves...even when not being tortured by the CIA. The usual bullshit that you hear from the overachievers and under rested crowd is, " The Country needs us and our leader demands results." This is no way to run a candy store much less the Office of POTUS. Grow up and catch some zzz before you hurt yourselves.
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