An elucidation

MANIFESTO

Let me expand a bit on something I referred to yesterday in a post. Specifically, the junior senator from Connecticut (an Independent who, through the spinelessness of Harry Reid, chairs the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee) Monday indicated that he regretted AG Holder's decision to investigate CIA atrocities because such an investigation

will have a chilling effect on the men and women agents of our intelligence community whose uninhibited bravery and skill we depend on every day to protect our homeland from the next terrorist attack.

I.e., it was the same old crapola: We should be very afraid of the big bad terrorists at all times and bringing CIA malfeasances to light should just make us more fearful.

Glenn Greenwald doesn't respond directly to Senator Scaredy-Cat, but he brings up a good point related to Holy Joe's pusillanimity. Viz.,

My email inbox and comment section are filled with ... sentiments that to oppose Torture is to defend Terrorists, because Terrorists deserve to be tortured, and that to oppose their abuse is to be treasonous because it's terrible to care if Terrorists are abused, etc. etc.

Clearly, this is Senator Sanctimony's position on the matter and has been since March of 2003, although, more accurately, Holy Joe believes that "to oppose Torture [of Arabs] is to defend [Arab] Terrorists, because [Arab] Terrorists deserve to be tortured."

It's obvious that Holy Joe would not be so regretful about an upcoming investigation if the "Terrorists" were from Haganah, Irgun, or Lehi.