The Department of Justice is independent of the White House, as it should be, and–sadly–as it wasn't during the previous eight years.

How would we know? It's secret.

“he (Dick Cheney) wants to politicize the torture debate as much as possible — to transform a profound debate about our country's values into just another everyday Republican/Democratic partisan squabble”

Cheney doesn't worry about the morality of torture, his primary concern is in framing the “debate” in a way that let's he and other chickenhawk “leaders” off the hook. His process for that involves further exploitation of the partisan divide, which is pretty easy to do given the abject willingness of his apologists to conform to whatever rhetoric he chooses to employ over almost any given issue.

lol…

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“If Dick Cheney (channeled through Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus) didn’t want the CIA to be hung out to dry, perhaps he shouldn’t have thrown the CIA in the washer and left them by the clothesline with a bag of clothes pins:”
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That's funny. Cheney causes the problem and then when the heat turns up on him he begs us to take pity on those he set out to roast over the coals. And he does it like a true coward through surrogates.

Tina
brainwave entrainment

“Employee morale at Enron is at an all-time low… maybe the SCC should lay off…”

Right.