Political Briefs

• How stupid does he think we are? Obama Rolled Twice By His Generals and Deconstructing Obamas excuses. Also: About the Photo Flip Flop.

• Glad she finally got her mind around the facts. Now let's see if she finds and fully supports a fearless, independent investigator to run the investigation she just mentioned. Then let's see if she acts on the investigator's findings. In the interim, why has she failed to introduce a resolution to impeach torture enabling memo author and U.S. Circuit Judge Jay Bybee? Who declines to testify... (It's called a subpoena, serve one (as opposed to an "invitation")

• Why did George W. Bush and Dick Cheney want the detainees to stop talking? What were they afraid they would say?

• The detainee was in good health according to people who saw him two weeks ago. Who wanted the detainee dead? Why? More here.

• Continuing and doing Rove's work for him.

• It's called the Constitution, recall that a few months ago you promised to preserve, protect and defend it. Are you going to bring Bybee and Yoo back to write an opinion that you can ignore the Constitution and the law?
• As previously reported by PSACOT, the Republicans in general, and in particular GWBush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, George Tenet, and Condi Rice do not understand and never understood much of anything about promoting, maintaining, and preserving national security. Also here.

• Did George W. Bush and Dick Cheney torture prisoners to protect their political position going into the 2004 election. Apparently, yes. They attempted to elicit "information" through torture that could be used to justify the fact that Bush and Cheney lied to the public and to the Congress on numerous occasions. Why? In order to obtain fraudulent approval to send American soldiers to their deaths in Iraq and to funnel billions of dollars to the company paying Cheney's retirement benefits and in which Cheney had a stock option position.

• Questions for McChrystal:
  * Is a triple tap a hallmark of a U.S. special operations shooter?
  * Between the day you personally approved Pat Tillman's Silver Star (which only may be awarded for bravery under enemy fire) and the very next day when you warned Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld that Tillman was probably killed by friendly fire (the triple tap in the head as reported by military doctors) and not any type of enemy fire, what did you learn that caused you to change your mind? From whom did you acquire the new information, if any? Were you given any documents supporting the "new information," if any? Why did you allow the government to continue to lie to Tillman's parents about the circumstances of his death?
  * How concerned were you that, as reported, Pat Tillman (just prior to his untimely triple tap death at the hands of U.S. special operations forces - the only soldiers of any type present when he died) was about to leave the service and publicize the ineffectual, wasteful, unlawful, and unconstitutional nature of the nation's military efforts in Afghanistan?
  * Where were you when Tillman died?
  * What contact(s) or communication(s) did you have, prior to Tillman's death, with anyone present on the scene when he died?
• Robert Reich: Obama should not be allowed to take money from seniors to pay off his pals on Wall Street.
• The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized The American Right
• I Oppose Torture, and Kagro X Is My Hero
• Good Tom Toles cartoon (requires free registration) about derivative nature of Obama policies.