ANOTHER REPUBLICAN ADMIN, ANOTHER MASSIVE CLEAN-UP
This week is still being written, but ...
- AG Eric Holder did nothing more, for another week, while we await the next inert report from Washington, the OPR review. Bybee did nothing more, for another week. Yoo didn't publish more, yet.
- The interwebs published a spectacular cheat-sheet for general use, but it could help CNN and other network anchors get their bearings amidst the creativity of indicted minds. (h.t Sullivan)
- Full disclosure filled out scant CIA records, showing that Cheney gave either "policy" or program briefings (of the non-legal variety?) to Congress in 2005, as part of the Administration's effort to ... er, keep one-step ahead, I'd guess (until retroactive immunity passed the Congress, at least).
- Cheney appeared on TV alongside his non-gay daughter, in a savvy PR attempt, no doubt, to soften his image and make him appear less fearsome and isolated. He threw in a non-ogre nugget on 'gay marriage', too, during this week's National Press Club Victory Lap.
- Perplexedly, pundits continued to ask why Cheney is talking, sometimes unaware of the (criminal?) mindset to simply show off that you got away with it, given that there is nothing anyone will do, least of all the blamed, Dick Clark and George Tenant.
- Congressional Republicans broke the national secrets act with gusto, in the name of 'terrorist-related program activities' and a bogus concept called 'enhanced interrogation'.
- For reasons unknown, a Gitmo detainee committed apparent suicide. Seven years, reportedly, without any charges and no trial.
- An NYT article makes it likely that General McCrystal will get public questions about detainee abuse, at some point.
- Petreaus washed the hand that fed him on photo suppression, putting up an interview on Radio-free Europe that included a nod on closing Gitmo.
- GG unearthed that Congress (Graham-Lieberman) was set to take the courts out of the photo question. The speculation that the photos show rape was raised (Horton), then retracted, again. The assertion that all in the photos had faced sufficient military justice was made, again (Sanchez).
