A Nation of Laws, Not of Ignorance

As always Marcy has the goods.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/31/richard-clarke-reminds-cheney-and-condi-of-their-incompetence/

The level of lawlessness that Bush/Chaney exhibited will take time to unfold and deal with but as we continue to see the pieces fall into place the actual evidence will become overwhelming. And undeniable to all but the total fanatics.

Time Flies While We're Having Fun

This is the best summary of the last 60-70 years that I have seen and I wish I'd written it
http://eb-misfit-2.blogspot.com/2009/05/greatest-security-threat-to-our-nation.html

Preemptive Whatever

Digby and her reader Sleon made some great points here: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/bush-doctrine-of-torture-by-digby.html

I know that this has been said before but I'm just wondering - if one were to accept the premise that "preemptive war" is OK against other nations wouldn't it logically follow if taken to the end of that path, that the concept of preemptive action is then OK against citizens of say, this country? One might call it a "war on drugs" or a "war on poverty". Who the combatants are is only then a matter of semantics and how they are treated is of no concern. After all they are combatants, not people. So the point of the above link is that torture is OK follows not just for foreign countries but anyone who does not agree.

Maybe there really was an axis of evil, we were just looking in the wrong direction. After all the first thing magicians learn is misdirection.