McClatchy digs up a revealing Cheney quote from 2003: "The (al Qaida-Iraq) links go back," he said. "We know for example from interrogating detainees in Guantanamo that al Qaida sent individuals to...
Author - Bob Cesca
The Torture Conspiracy
Because this is such an important issue, I thought I'd repost my Huffington Post column from Wedneday. Now more than ever, I firmly believe that Dick Cheney and the people who surrounded him from...
Excuses
For several weeks, we've been hearing a lot about how scared everyone was immediately after 9/11 and, therefore, how any of us would've supported torture at the time. Therefore the Bushies were...
Wingularity
A commenter at Balloon Juice writes about wingnuts: Wingers will never be more or less sane, or more or less stupid. They will always be as bat-shit insane and pig-ignorant as they always have been...
Morning Awesome
The Atomic Swindlers - "Float (my electric stargirl)" From Coming Out Electric Animated by Joel Trussell
Grapes!
On a lighter note, I've been cultivating a Suffolk Red grapevine for several years now, and I've been baffled by the fact that it hasn't produced actual grapes. Until now! Look: There are dozens of...
Prime Time Thread
It's your Saturday Night Open Thread. We're ready to believe you.
Elizabeth Warren on Maher
I was extraordinarily impressed with Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel. I think Maher was, too.
False Confessions
Joe Conason: Whether Bush, Cheney and their associates were seeking real or fabricated intelligence, they knowingly employed methods that were certain to produce the latter -- as American officials...
Pragmatism
The president isn't going to do everything we want him to do. Sometimes -- gasp! -- he'll do exactly the opposite of what we want him to do. That doesn't mean he's exactly like George W. Bush. Or...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Keeping Clean & Neat"
Gingrich Wanted Torture Exposed in 2002
Gingrich on Hannity's radio show: "Nancy Pelosi was the ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee. She had an absolute obligation to know what was going on. She had an absolute obligation to...
Doof Quote of the Day
Rare video edition: Hey, assface. What about this?
Very Serious Question
If investigating and prosecuting members of a previous administration is such a Washington no-no, why, then, has the establishment press, the Republicans and the Obama administration not called off...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Friday night blogotubing. We're ready to believe you. And the final night of our Spring fundraising drive. Last call (sort of) to toss a few samoleons into the jolly candy-like...
Khalid and The Nexus
Sam Stein reports: Some of the first questions asked of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed upon his capture and during the time during which he was waterboarded were about possible connections between al Qaeda...
More Wingnut Self-Contradictions
Dave Neiwert reminds Bill O'Reilly and other torture sadists that you can't support torture, then complain that releasing information about torture will endanger our soldiers. What's clearly never...
The Republican Distraction Machine
Greg Sargent: Multiple news accounts this morning report that Pelosi’s credibility is in question after yesterday’s press conference, in which she accused the CIA of lying about what they told...
Morning Joe
Scarborough, this morning, is all over Speaker Pelosi's press conference yesterday. Back in 2002, when the establishment press could've made a real difference in preventing the invasion and...
Morning Awesome
The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette - "Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs)" This song is timeless.