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March 3rd, 2009
 | 10:25 am
By all means, Congress, do investigate the CIA, who destroyed 92 tapes of harsh interrogations of Al-Qaeda suspects to hide evidence of their own wrongdoing. Harpers spells it out: CIA in mass destruction of torture evidence. You should know that Attorney General Eric Holder has said waterboarding is not going to be done under Obama.
The Washington Post says Bush Administration legal memos from after 9/11 show a lot of legal errors. That's being charitable. ( errors or purposeful misstatements? )
However, the NY Times says the memos include "assertions that the president could use the nation’s military within the United States to combat terrorism suspects and to conduct raids without obtaining search warrants." That's not a legal error; that's martial law. ( more detail )
And here are the links to the Justice Department, if you want to read the memos for yourself.
The Republican Party appears to be imploding a bit. Let me see if I can track it: Party chair Michael Steele called Rush Limbaugh an entertainer, said he wasn't that important and his material was ugly. Limbaugh slaps back, and Steele blames the mess on Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats (instead of his own open mouth, which is now chewing on his foot up to the knee.) And now Steele has apologized for calling Limbaugh an entertainer. Who's leading the Republican Party now? Personally, I don't find Limbaugh at all entertaining, and Steele was a horrible lieutenant governor; it's interesting, however, to see David Duke et alia gritting their teeth at Steele's truthtelling.
In California, the Legislature declared that voters alone didn't have the right to bar same-sex marriages, because Prop. 8 revised the state constitution and did so without going through proper channels. Such changes have to originate in the Legislaure, get two-thirds approval there and then go to the voters. The resolution said Prop. 8 also oversteps the authority of the courts to enforce equal protection and prevent government discrimination.
India declares traditional herbs and yoga postures cannot be patented.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority comes up with a daring plan: divert Mississippi floodwater and put it into the Central Plains aquifer from which western water is drawn.
Slate reads the entire Bible and learns a lot about American culture. No intellectual assent or belief necessary.
If you ride Ryanair planes, cross your legs. Or carry a lot of change -- because it's pay as you go.
14 outrageous guitars.
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