DOJ: Give Us More Powers Because We F*** Up So Often
By: emptywheel

this is interesting Marcy and I think you’ll appreciate it;

when the 9/11 commission made some recommendations, one was some kind of “terror czar”, a central figure who was authorized and charged with consolidating the information from all of our intelligence agencies

the interesting thing about that position and how it relates to the title of your post is the fact that we already had that position only under a different title

that position is the job description of the president

we know as a fact the president was indeed given all the information, in precise format, with accurate detail and with absolute urgency, all that was needed to avert the attack on 9/11

he instead took vacation and didn’t care one stitch that his intelligence gathering agencies agent’s “hair was on fire” they were worried more then ever before

so the president started this entire episode by being so inept he needed even more power

how bizarre a scenario, the peter principle on steroids

Glenn Greenwald & Megan McArdle April 14

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/10187

My 15 year old said, ” I think Greenwald has a grasp on the historic role of the press in a democracy. McArdle? She’s got nothing. In the end it’s Greenwald 3, McArdle – goose egg!”

I had not said anything to him as to what I thought of the dialog (minus the many times my jaw dropped at a few of McArdle’s perspectives). My son, he’s got the take on this dialog spot on.

If you watch, keep heavy objects away from your hands and preferably no small children in the room (due to what you might yell at your monitor).

Captain Jack “Law of the Sea” Goldsmith is a worthless puke just like the rest of them. There is absolutely nothing admirable about him. His actions in withdrawing and rewriting memos were almost certainly motivated by fear of having his own, Comey’s and other’s asses on the ethical firing line by way of the FISC, NOT out of their ethical and moral worthiness. The story he is peddling now is almost certainly complete revisionist history. Furhtermore he wrote his superceding documents, his book and has otherwise done everything in his power to exculpate his predecessors. He can go straight to hell with the rest of them.

Well, I am watching The Daily Show now and, um, I will stick with my earlier opinion. I know you are all shocked by that….

SUSH SUSH, Don’t call too much attention to it, We are about to send a Satirist to the US Senate. As Walter Mondale put it in late 2005, “many in Washington don’t know that they really do satire, or stand up comedy, so it is time for Minnesota to send them a real Professional.”

By the way, we also have a restless free radical professional wrestler, addicted to independent Politics, … should any state have a need for such, comes complete with a fake claim to being a Navy Seal, with ghost written books, pink tights, and feather boas. All serious offers considered.

You want something to happen after next November? Well the demand for it needs to be on the table now, and around the edges people need to be talking about the matter. No, not an electorial promise — we should be so stupid, but a political comprehension. You can encompass both politics and the law in “wrongdoers should not walk away with the fruit of their wrongs.” You don’t have to promise Gitmo to everyone. (as I said, I have my personal fantasy as to the proceedings on the Mall.)

Why is a comedian our best reporter (although I will admit that ex-sportscaster’s not bad)?