Sith Lord Dick Cheney emerged from his homemade bunker today to criticize the Administration for not starting an air war over Iran to go along with the shadow war already in progress. He wanted to bomb the drone they captured.

I realize that Dick Cheney is basically a troll these days, but I’m going to go ahead and feed him a little for this one.

Another stirring non-victory by the anti-heroes of the Bush foreign policy team.

This KY ad, once we clean up all the Fundie head explosions — this makes us laugh. With joy.

Thank you, ladies.

So, um… did everybody here go out and buy Dick Cheney’s autobiography (In My Time, which came out earlier this week) yet?

Sigmund Freud once mentioned the defense offered by a man who was accused by his neighbor of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition. In the first place, he had returned the kettle undamaged; in the second place it already had holes in it when he borrowed it; and in the third place, he had never borrowed it at all.

That man’s name?

Dick Cheney.

The Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration have awarded those culpable for war crimes and crimes against humanity impunity and, in effect, immunity. They have given culpable individuals like Cheney the space to do media tours and promote memoirs that offer “their side” of the story—a story that celebrates actions and conduct that, in a society that respected the rule of law and actually took seriously the idea of equal protection under the law, would be subject to a criminal investigation.

I was pleased to be asked to appear on the successful RT news program The Alyona Show earlier today. The interview was offered as a follow-up to an investigatory article published at Truthout last week, which showed that all protestations by Donald Rumsfeld and U.S. government authorities aside, the U.S. military did engage in torture remarkably similar to waterboarding, if not waterboarding itself. An accompanying article was also posted here at The Dissenter.

While Jane Mayer’s profile on NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake has generated a lot of attention for the way Obama’s DOJ is senselessly prosecuting him, there has been less focus on the key revelation that Drake and others went on the record to reveal in Mayer’s story: that the NSA chose not to integrate the privacy protections from a program called ThinThread into its illegal domestic surveillance program.

The AP has a interesting–and interestingly timed–story on the help we’re giving Saudi Arabia to build a “facilities security force” to protect, among other things, its oil fields and planned civilian nuclear sites.