Author: Scott Lemieux
Many people have already noted a key takeaway from Scott Shane's article on the CIA's arbitrary torture regime: it didn't work. A couple things about it are also worth noting..
Always irrelevant to actual defenses of torture. [For the classic explanations, see Henley and Waring.]
I strongly recommend Kate Sheppard's piece on the EPA's new determination that "that planet-warming greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health and welfare," both because it provides valuable information.
The evidence that he made anything but trivial mistakes remains pretty much non-existent.
The only way this could have been any sweeter would have been for a pigeon to fly in right before the first pitch and relieve itself on Jeter's cap.I should.
As Steve says, it's a mixed news day; it's good that Obama is releasing the torture memos, bad that CIA operatives who carried out torture won't be prosecuted. Admittedly, the.
Apparently, any flamboyant, extremely whiny public resignations notwithstanding, Jake DeSantis is still using the immense expertise he gained by knowing absolutely nothing about the relevant deals to collect paychecks from.
The man is so beyond the pale that even the well-noted Trotskyite Ken Starr has endorsed him.