Politics and Press

Back to the Shack, Same Game

So, Senators McCain, Warner and Graham - in a totally predictable outcome - caved to the folk who apparently believe that torture is producing valuable intelligence – such as the confession we got the Syrians to beat out of an innocent Canadian.  The press behaves as expected in these situations – they take the Republican “disagreement” at face value and run back-patting stories when everyone supposedly compromises and gives the administration and the CIA what they want and what they knew they would get in the end.  The story here is in the details and the details tell us that Bush et alia will do whatever they want by interpreting the legislation in whatever way they wish.