The FBI’s littlest terrorist, 19-year old Mohamed Mohamud, is apparently being represented by some pretty good lawyers to defend him in his open-and-shut entrapment case; they’ve loudly and appropriately told, in no uncertain terms, Attorney General Eric Holder to shut his lying pie-hole. From this morning’s Oregonian: Mohamed Mohamud’s defense team has asked a federal [...]
UPDATE BELOW: My letter to the intrepid journalist, and his oh, so redeeming reply. This morning, Glenn Greenwald had an excellent post about the despicable fear-mongering ad Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol had slapped together to smear not just the Obama DOJ, but basically the entire tradition of western jurisprudence, the evenhandedness of which seems [...]
Well, the CIA’s IG report on torture was released today, mostly to yawns. So what if we threatened to kill a detainee’s children? Who cares if we said we would sexually assault a detainee’s mother, in front of him, natch… What’s the big deal about staging mock executions, since it appears that we also had [...]