Regarding the recent burbling news of more detailed info regarding our post-9/11 prison system, and of President Obama's downplaying of such news, I'm reminded of one of Bill Hicks' classic routines. This time, however, I think this is exactly what has happened: "I have this feeling whoever's elected president, no matter what their promises were...When you win, you go into this smoky room...And this little screen comes down, and a big guy with a cigar takes a puff, and he says 'roll the film'... And it's shots from: 7 years of interrogations run by operatives and allied contractors of the prior administration; shots from Islamist camps throughout the world; all from angles you've never seen before, and showing things you've never heard of. Then the film cuts off, the screen goes up, and the big man says to the new president: 'Any questions?'"
Amidst the noise and whining from the Left, recall that we actually have a conflict to wage. It isn't really worth launching an internal shadow war, at least until we've cleaned up our existing messes. | 