Ahh! What the Hell! It’s not real money, it’s only taxpayers’ money. The only differernce between Little Smokin’ Barry and W is that the former may actually be just a little more stupid.

When wars are open-ended, this can no longer be in effect without essentially declaring that teh government can imprison for life whomever it wants.

With this paragraph he basically answers his own question. The biggest fear the administration has is to have one of the detainees be found not guilty due to evidence provided by torture which would free that person on U.S. soil to where they could potential commit another terrorist act.

Why do we have to release them on U.S. soil? Send ‘em somewhere else.

Joke, right? Was it minutes? Or hours? That the “secrets” were “leaked”, after “the briefing”? Would you want your life to depend on Congress’s “secret-keeping ability”?

Was it the standard “Lib Leak”? Was it some Repub, trying to demonstrate that the committee can’t keep a secret? Why no investigation? No punishment?

Like most problems, the cause is government. What if we offerred a million $ to any whistleblower who can tell us who “spilt the beans”? What if the automatic penalty was life imprisonment, for compromising a wartime secret?

Under such a plan, I would be comfortable with briefing as big a committee as Congress could convene.

If discovered, years later, that a mistake had been made, treat that person as a “war causalty”, a survivor. Pay them 1 million $ for every year they had served, while innocent. And if they “suddenly remembered” who actually compromised the secrets, then pay them an extra million, upon life imprisonment of the true traitor.

(And while we’re at it, how about life in prison, for any politician who violates the “openness and transparancy” promise, for any amount spent above 1 million $?)

Let us hope that Holder is successful in imprisoning some of the CIA, or even some of the Bush cabinet. We’ll meet ‘cha in 2012 for OUR turn.