Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up. Stretching our credulity to its absolute breaking point, representative Peter Hoekstra waxes McCarthyesque:
“More frequently than what we would like, we find out that the intelligence community has been penetrated, not necessarily by al Qaeda, but by other nations or organizations,” he said.
“I don’t have any evidence. But from my perspective, when you have information that is leaked that is clearly helpful to our enemy, you cannot discount that possibility,” he added.
Of course, Occam’s Razor applies here. Is it terrorists, who have managed to so fully assimilate into our society that they have penetrated the highest levels of government, or simply whistleblowers who really think that violating the Constitution and invading people’s privacy is a really BAD idea?
You decide.
More than four years too late and only after being forced to do so by the Supreme Court, the Bush administration is begrudgingly giving prisoners of war basic human rights under the Geneva Convention.
We can only pray that no more justices retire before Bush’s term ends, however, since the two new Bush justices either voted (Alito) or would have voted (Roberts, who had to recuse himself) the other way. One more retirement and torture and kangaroo courts could become a permanent feature of our government.
