The Secret Prison Debacle

Anyone paying attention to what the Bushies have been willing to do to "protect us" - all of which seem designed far better to endanger us and to exploit profits for Halliburton et al from public fear - can't be surprised that we have secret prisons all over the world where we ferry people to keep them outside US laws and courts so we can do whatever we like to them with no intervention.

I'm not even sure the pact with the devil the Washington Post made to report this story - telling us the prisons exist but not identifying the countries where we operate them - is a surprise. It's a TERRIBLE decision, yes, but not a surprise in Bush's America.

No, the surprises here have been that the Senate wants to investigate who leaked this story to the Washington Post but NOT the existence of such prisons, and that Trent Lott pops off with the fact that it must be Republicans who did this because - and here he speaks rare truth - the Republicans don't tell the Dems anything.

And yes, I'm still sadly surprised that we think torture is peachy-keen-o-reeno when we KNOW it does not produce reliable information. People lie to stop being tortured, and then we spend billions racing around checking leads that don't pan out.