Dan Froomkin writes:
"The legislation before the Senate today would ban torture, but let Bush define it; would allow the president to imprison indefinitely anyone he decides falls under a wide-ranging new definition of unlawful combatant; would suspend the Great Writ of habeas corpus; would immunize retroactively those who may have engaged in torture. And that's just for starters."
"Today's vote will show more clearly than ever before that, when push comes to shove, the Republicans who control Congress are in lock step behind the president, and the Democrats -- who could block him, if they chose to do so -- are too afraid to put up a real fight."
He then has outtakes from many articles on the subject.
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Poking around on Froomkin's column I see a list of White House salaries.
I notice one conspicuous one: $106,641 to Stuart Girand Baker as the "Director for Lessons Learned"
Shouldn't we just fire the guy & redistribute his salary to the taxpayers? (actually you could redistribute his salary to the rest of the White House Staff ... some seriously underpaid people on that list).
Cause either he's being prevented from doing his job or he's really, REALLY bad at it ...
You're not the first to notice this. :)
Think Progress lists their view of the 4 most overpaid staffers and skank offers some lessons for him.
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