I am a crook.

Is torture .. illegal? Quaint.

Guns and Butter

Butter makes everything more palatable.

Environmentalist

A precedent.

Bumper stickers

Attribution at carryabigsticker.com

Homeland Security

Q: If the job of the Department of Homeland Security is to defend the homeland,
what is the job of the Department of Defense?
A: Defend the empire.

John Walker Lindh, first torture victim

Reprisal against Jesselyn Radack.
Most evidence is,
of course, secret.

James Madison

A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy.
Nemesis p245