So...once again...we are all mislead by the usual MISINFORMATION based on a LACK OF INFORMATION.

Bob Dylan sang, "...look out kid, they keep it all hid...".

I can tell you what some of those memos are about:

--WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE FACTS IN MY 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG COMPLAINT that includes THE ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA DRUG PIPELINE into GOP Gov MARC RACICOT'S domain;

--THE EVENTUAL FEAR THAT MY CIVIL SUIT WOULD EXPOSE AND ENLIGHTEN OUR BOGUS PUNK CLOWN MAINSTREAM MEDIA into considering THE 3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS facilitated by NSA 902nd Counterintel Groups' SIGINT using the CALEA computerized wiretap interface;

--THE MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE (Round Rock, Texas, 9/23/03) by the same NSA TSP merc's who were sent after me when I lived in Austin, Texas, from 1/93--3/3/01;

--MURDER AND ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE OF DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF, RICHARD GORDON, lately of Custer, SD, before he died from a mysterious brain tumor caused by The CIA Torture murder weapon called DEW (Directed Energy WEapon that focuses microwave radiation to induce brain strokes, brain tumors, and misdiagnosed symptomology);

--CONSPIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, AND CONGRESS when a Senate Jud Comm witness named THOMAS S. BEAN contacted Sen. Grassley with a 10 page memo that outlined the FBI's overt acts as part of conspiracies to violate TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512,1513, 2510--ET AL.;

--The Mexican Mafia Murder info from former austin recovering junkie GEORGE REYES, and the use of illegally obtained info by Sioux Falls FBI cowardly lying punks DAVE "f---face" HELLER, and little tough guy jerk DANNY "sh--head" REYNALDS;

--THE OBSTRUCTION OF SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION when Miers and Bolten colluded with SD ATTY GEN LARRY "buttnutt" LONG to coerce Tapken by "targeting her son for a bogus SD AG investigation" into alleged criminal fraud surrounding The Dan Nelson Automotive Loan business that Tapken's son administered;

--OBSTRUCTION OF MINNEAPOLIS FBI'S INVESTIGATION OF ME, when CIA/NSA (?) illegally monitored DR. MARK GORDON IN HIS HOME WITH A PIN HOLE SPY CAMERA AND ALSO FRIED GORDON WITH A DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON (same thing used to murder Dr. Gordon's brother RICH GORDON);

--and a whole lot more.

I really don't care how long it takes, but I want the next administration to hunt down these torturing, Constitution-hating bastards down and make certain they have enough legal bills to make their defense-contracting jobs still fall short. And not to put too fine a point on it: I don't really believe we can count on Sen. McCain to get to the bottom of this garbage. Oh, I know the Republicans will try to say "We've moved on," but if the rest of the world watches a new administration come in and sweep this under the first rug it can find, then they'll begin to suspect we're not as worshipful of liberty as we've always portrayed ourselves to be.

Not a problem. None will be pardoned before Bush leaves, so they can all be prosecuted by the next Democratic administration. If we want to avoid the long drawn out trial, the next Democratic president can simply declare them enemy combatants and render them to Syria.

Chabuka's point is well taken. People in Congress had multiple chances to stand up to the Neocon cabal. But before the Iraq War vote something like a handful of them took the time to read the whole NIE, which set out a flimsy case to begin with. And there's a lot more. Rep. Harman, D-Calif., and other apparently knew about the torturing and let it slide. So they're going to look like stooges too, apparently. They might as well put Bill of Rights toilet paper in the restrooms in D.C.

Hey, thomasBean - you may be perfectly sane for all I know, but using all those caps makes you look like a crazy man.

I've read some things from Mr. Bean's Website, and there may well be some truth to his assertions. They are peppered, however, with claims that most "rational" people dismiss as being paranoid. And yes, crazy typing doesn't help anyone's case.

On the other hand, what we keep discovering about the depth of covert operations within and outside of this country tends to move me a little closer to accepting that some of the claims that Mr. Bean and other assert—about the level of surveillance to which they have been subjected, in particular—are, in fact, possible.

We've all discovered an awful lot about the breadth of this Administration's politicizing of previously innocuous and nonpartisan agencies, and many of these revelations, I believe, have come from people within who feel it's safer to do so now that the Administration is winding down.

But beneath the politics involved is a psychology that knows right from wrong but believes that to achieve goals that are touted as being good for the country (but seem only to benefit a few), anything goes. "Right and wrong" get trumped by "means to an end."

Belief in an ideology of exclusivity, self-righteousness, and a grandiose sense of entitlement seem to propel these policies' proponents—the ones who order them. And the power that they wield—and will continue to wield unless they are stopped (I agree with you, Long Memory) has pushed people who might otherwise be decent into actions that they now can't scramble fast enough to cover up.

Whereas certain key actors in the CIA hold the primary responsibility for renditions and torture, every single person who knew about it and did nothing—including the Congress and upper-level CIA—are also responsible.

The blueprints for acceptable action against an "enemy" have been clearly laid out by Geneva. Any loose interpretations are not excuses but mere sophistry. The only moral high ground available slipped away when those in the know, who now realize they made big mistakes in going along with the Administration, didn't come forward.

"I was only following orders" didn't hold up after WWII, and it certainly doesn't now.