Well Digging

Glenn Greenwald: “Note how warped our political culture is: Sen. Dick Durbin was forced to tearfully apologize on the Senate floor for accurately comparing our treatment of detainees at Guantanamo to the techniques used in Soviet gulags and by Gestapo interrogation squads, but those who perpetrated theses war crimes have apologized for nothing, remain welcome in decent company, and are still shielded by our Government from all accountability”.

Dick Cheney claims that “enhanced interrogation techniques” saved lives; it was a necessary tool to protect American citizens from future Jihadist attacks. If true, then this question must be asked: Why not have a full and open accounting? I should think that the former Vice President would want complete transparency in order to clear his name -- as would other high ranking administration apparatchiks involved in orchestrating and implementing the secret program. Congressional Republicans should be clamoring for the DOJ to investigate the previous administration’s extreme commitment to homeland security, assuming there is nothing to hide.

But oddly enough, there is a concerted effort to block such an investigation. Maybe Cheney needs to spend less time on Fox News and more time encouraging Sen. Mitch McConnell to get on the stick.
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George Will stepped in it a few weeks ago when using spurious misinformation to opine about the hoax known as global warming. Immediately spotted by Washington Post readers, Will did what any professional conservative pundit would do when caught echoing rightwing flam…he doubled down in his next column. Although Will is no climatologist, he knows Al Gore’s crap about melting polar ice is just another liberal scheme to take away his Escalade. The thought that Will -- the whiz who transformed the beautiful game of baseball into Byzantine fuddle -- could screw up something as obviously phony as man-made climate change (it still snows in Fargo…hello?) is troubling. Is his bulb beginning to dim or did his assistant accidentally insert an excerpt from Sen. Jim Inhofe’s “Colder than a Witch’s Tit!!” as a factual example of global warming media hype? While Inhofe’s paperback is popular with couples who vacation in truck stop showers, his research technique is considered iffy because he based his conclusion solely on the surface temperature of his butt.

I’m looking forward to Will’s next musing on why the theory of evolution is responsible for the outbreak of interracial marriage.
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The wife and I are thinking about joining the staff from National Review on their upcoming Mediterranean cruise. For only $2,499 clams apiece, we could mingle with the cream of wingnut intelligentsia. I’m assuming a ten foot pole is included in the fare.

Juan Don