In light of congressional probes and lawsuits on detainee operations…

Looks like there is a lot going on, and that’s a good thing.

Good, now let release the memos of “Iran-Contra” and find out Gates and Negroponte’s involvement on War Crimes!

It won’t matter to those that watch the Fox News Channel. They don’t trust any other news source.

Obama had no choice but to release them. It was the right thing to do. And if they had been leaked, which they ultimately would have been, then questions would arise as to the complicity of the Obama Administration and Obama might have lost a bit of trust by the American Public.

In other news… Dick Cheney says: “So?”

Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 10:02:03 AM PDT

Over the past couple of days, Karl Rove and Fox News have offered a new argument in defense of the Bush administration’s torture policies.

Now, they say, waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) yielded intelligence that led to the disruption of an al Qaeda plot to attack the tallest building in Los Angeles, the Library Tower (which both Bush and Rove called the Liberty Tower, for some reason). There’s just one problem with Rove’s new story: it couldn’t possibly be true.

As Timothy Noah pointed out in Slate, the Los Angeles attack was foiled in February of 2002. KSM was not captured until March of 2003, however — more than a year later.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that timeline is impossible. Perhaps appropriately, then, here’s a video of George W. Bush — in his own words — proving that Karl Rove and Fox News are lying about torture:

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001220/

But he added that his own view was shaped by his belief that the methods would ultimately become known.

It’s relevant. One of the things that confuzzles me so much about the BushCo behavior is that they seem to have behaved as if what they’ve done would never come out. Which just makes no sense, given how many laws are on the books regarding government recordkeeping and the release of information. If all you’ve got is stalling, then inevitably you will fail. Even if you agree with Cheney about everything else, that one’s just plain dumb.

If anyone can name any other person from the previous administration or on the Hill right now who has done this, I’d be willing to listen.

So he knew the beans would eventually spill out of the bag, so….

I’m not sure why they’ve objected to the release of the memos when this was already public knowledge. The memos just confirmed what most of us already knew. They’re just scared that their a$$es are going to be mowed like grass.

Gates seems to be the type that will do or say what ever his master at the time tells him to do or say.

Most people call that “having a job.”

“a terrible problem for the security of our asses” is more like it.

Do these “national security!” alarmists honestly believe the world didn’t think we tortured before the memos were released?

Wetting themselves the whole time.