You read it right.  This “conspiracy theory” is now confirmed thanks to the Telegraph, a UK based newspaper.

Reading further is pretty graphic, if short…

Daveinchi wrote an essay, Conservatives will lose the Plains next.  It has some great numbers that give the Democratic Party hope for a sustained movement.

While the numbers look promising, they tell only half the story…

By now, there are few who don’t know that torture memo author John Yoo isn’t a paid columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer.  As Harold Jackson of the Inquirer thinks that Yoo will bring up the level of discourse, I felt we should see what it would look like if he just that…

It’s that day again; Memorial Day.  A day to honor those who died while in service to our country.

While Americans wave flags that they never fought for, the rest of us who did view this day in a different way…

Frankly, I’m at my wits end with politicians, the media, and idiots who listen to both of them.

Can I scream this any louder than the mass email I sent to every journalist, paper, and politician I could?

Nothing stirred then, nor still stirs us as Americans, as hearing Paul Revere yell, “The British are coming, the British are coming!”  

And with those words, I’m going to take another look at “history”…

While I no longer post on Daily Kos, I do still visit the site to see if there are any diaries posted worth reading.  That is how I caught the diary posted by buhdydharma that was written by TocqueDeville.  There was a paragraph in it that I really got my goat and requires a response.

So no, I didn’t violate the FAQ. And the assumption that I did is merely a projection of truther nonsense on to me. It is a perfect example of the very point I was trying to make in that diary. Why would I, in a diary where I explicitly expressed my support for the ban on 911 CTs, then turn around and propose a 911 CT? I have seen an invasion of truthers and controlled demolition people at one of my physics forums and I would not wish that on anyone.

But, I’m not going to start this essay by responding to that one paragraph, that will come at the end of it.

There are few things that media pundits can do get the ire of a veteran then trying to tell them what they can, and cannot, speak out upon with authority when the subject is torture, war, and the effects.

Harold Jackson at the Philadelphia Inquirer thought he would defend Mr. Yoo.  

I responded to his article.

In light of the fact that as more information comes out about torture, we need to go back in time to see how Cheney started the cover-up.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Karl Rove and dozens of other White House staffers appear to have illegally routed official e-mails through a Republican group that subsequently deleted them, a congressional report said on Monday.

By using Republican National Committee e-mail accounts for official business, senior White House aides may have broken a law requiring them to preserve presidential records, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said in an interim report.

“This should be a matter of grave concern for anyone who values open government and the preservation of an accurate historical record,” said committee Chairman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat.

The Presidential Records Act of 1978 requires White House officials to save official correspondence. While the White House automatically archives its e-mail the RNC typically deletes messages on its server older than 30 days, the report said.

That was the Reuters report dated Jun 18 2007.

Are we done with the finger pointing yet?  The CIA says that “Democrats” were briefed.  The “Democrats” say that the CIA is lying.  Nobody is talking about the fact that waterboarding is illegal anymore.  The Bush administration tried to do an end-run around Congress, that much we know now.

The Florida Democrat also expounded on the process by which congressmembers were briefed.

“The basic law which comes out of the Church Committee hearings that were the topic of some discussion earlier this morning on NPR states that the executive should brief the full House and Senate intelligence committees on any proposed or ongoing activities,” Graham said. “The one exception to that is what is referred to as covert action, where there is a conscious desire to keep the signature of the United States, its fingerprints, off an operation. In that case the president can direct that only the eight leaders, the four congressional leaders and the four leaders of the intelligence committees will be briefed. This is the so-called Gang of 8. In those briefings, you’re not allowed to bring any staff. Generally you’re called to the meeting with limited notice and no opportunity to prepare since you’re not informed as to what the subject of the briefing is going to be. And then after the briefing you can’t discuss it with anyone except those that were in the room.”

Did you see the end-run they tried to pull?  Follow me after the fold…