Using fear-mongering to generate support for more "enhanced" detention and interrogation techniques

ya gotta love the euphemism they use - "flexible"... what does "flexible" tell you...? i don't know about you, but "flexible" says to me they want to be able to "bend"... "bend" what, you may ask...? "bend" what's already in place would be my response and what's already in place has been shown time and again to circumvent due process, constitutional rights and the u.n. convention against torture... the next question would be HOW "flexible"...? what exactly is the "flexibility" they're asking for...? i'm not sure i want to know... oh, hell... of COURSE i want to know... we - all of us - NEED to know...

Intelligence officials say al-Qaeda will try to attack U.S. in next 6 months

The Obama administration's top intelligence officials on Tuesday described it as "certain" that al-Qaeda or its allies will try to attack the United States in the next six months, and they called for new flexibility in how U.S. officials detain and question terrorist suspects.

needless to say, in the typical context-free, head-in-the-sand journalism we've come to expect from our news media, the rest of the wapo article completely ignores the flashing red light sitting on top of the call for "new flexibility in how U.S. officials detain and question terrorist suspects"...

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Don't Pinch Me...........

.........I don't wanna be woke up.

I'm having sweet dreams, courtesy of NewsMax, no less.


Obama May Bring Criminal Charges Against Bush

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden said he and presidential hopeful Barack Obama could bring criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.

“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued,” Biden said during a campaign stop in Florida on Monday, ABC News reported.

“Not out of vengeance, not out of retribution. Out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.”

Biden promised that an Obama-Biden government would go through Bush administration data with "a fine-toothed comb" and pursue criminal charges if necessary.

Now, if they will only dig into the back of their closets, and find the backbones they misplaced so long ago, and keep their word this time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know..............but cut me some slack. I said I was dreamin'.

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