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Marcy is on vacation, so I'm carrying the pixie dust ball a few meters down the field towards the goal line until she gets home. It seems there are even more secret memos........

Here is a direct quote from a letter sent on Department of Justice Stationary and signed by Brian A. Benczkoski, Principal Assistant Deputy Attorney General: The Honorable Richard B. Cheney, President, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510. Yeah, I did a double take. Then a triple take. Then I read that third line in the address more slowly--and after a brief interlude to defibrillate my heart--went on to read the rest of the letter. Yeah, I did a double take. Then a triple take. Then I read that third line in the address more slowly--and after a brief interlude to defibrillate my heart -- went on to read the rest.

NPR is reporting that FBI agents have raided both the home and office of Scott Bloch. This looks a bit like a mafia turf war--bad guys fighting with bad guys? Or did Bloch start out as a loyal Bushie and get to a point where he could no longer go along to get along and decided to draw a line in the sand over the Lurita Doan/Karl Rove matter because it was JUST TOO BIG?

How are Gitmo Show trials like retroactive immunity for the Telcoms? Both are being used to insulate Bush-Cheney and compatriots from prosecution for their acts.

The other day the New York Times reported that the President is asserting that he has the unilateral right to decide on a case by case basis whether or not a particular interrogation method constitutes torture. While the Geneva Conventions prohibit “outrages upon personal dignity,” a letter sent by the Justice Department to Congress on March 5 makes clear that the administration has not drawn a precise line in deciding which interrogation methods would violate that standard, and is reserving the right to make case-by-case judgments.

SDNY USA Mike Garcia is at it again.First there was the leak from Garcia's office that ended the career of Dem Governor Elliot Spitzer, who Garcia did NOT indict. Now his office is leaking about a Dem City Councilwoman in Yonkers, NY, who has NOT been indicted. Is Mike Garcia morphing into Leura Canary?

The other day, I pointed out that the tortures inflicted upon detainees at Gitmo were performed on American soil. The Supreme Court agrees with that interpretation and said so, in Rasul v. Bush. The Administration seems to think torture is hunky dory and makes a big distinction about the detainees not being given civil rights because they are not American citizens.

Let's really have a Memorial Day: Starting tomorrow, the best and most sincere thing we can do to honor our fallen sons and daughters is to make sure that the press, the Congress and every person we meet is talking about the war. How bad it is going, how pointless it is, how much worse off we are for having started it, how we need to end it. How John McCain doesn't want to end it.

The Washington Post is reporting on the use of unnamed, unknown drugs involuntarily administered to detainees at Gitmo. Not Abu Ghraib, not some black site operated by another country, GITMO; on American soil.

TPM and WaPo are reporting that Georgetown University has decided not to continue to employ Doug Feith.