Marc Thiessen defends the “al-Qaeda 7″ attack ad by likening the attorneys who defended detainees in Guantanamo, as well as José Pedilla, John Walker Lindh, and others to “mob lawyers” and “drug cartel lawyers.” Setting aside the obvious point that even mobsters and drug lords deserve representation in a court of law, we should not [...]

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Last night I experimented with drawing caricature from digital scratch. I think it looks okay — as in, it looks like him and it’s cartoony — but it doesn’t grab me the way pen on paper does. I am less comfortable drawing digitally than I am using traditional tools. That can always change, given that [...]

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“So, if the President wants to crush the testicles of a terror suspect’s child, waterboard the dude, then kill everyone in his home town because they might be full of hostile insurgents, that’s cool with you?” “Sure. What the fuck.” “Is there a legal theory behind all this?” “Well…yeah. I just told you.” “…?” “What [...]

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Dick Cheney will waterboard you now.

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Dick Cheney has already been quite vocal in his criticism of President Obama’s foreign policy, decision to release torture memos, and abandonment of torture as a method of intelligence gathering. Now he’s taking on Colin Powell: Cheney: I Choose Rush Limbaugh Over Colin Powell CBS reports the rest of the interview here. If Dick Cheney [...]

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Click the image to read it the whole thing. Next week, I’ll try not to do a cartoon about torture. Unless someone else says something stupid about it. What are the chances of that?

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Click the image to see how Obama’s visit with the CIA went.

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Your racist quote of the day, courtesy of no less than Karl Rove: But Karl Rove, Mr. Bush’s former top political adviser, accused the White House of playing politics with the issue [of prosecuting Bush-era officials over torture]. He said in an interview that Obama administration officials “run the risk of looking like some Third [...]

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CNN reports: CIA interrogators used waterboarding at least 266 times on two top al Qaeda suspects, according to a Bush-era Justice Department memo released by the Obama administration. The controversial technique that simulates drowning — and which President Obama calls torture — was used at least 83 times in August 2002 on suspected al Qaeda [...]

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Yesterday the Obama White House released Bush era memos pertaining to torture and harsh interrogation techniques that have put our country in the same league of police states our own State Department routinely condemns. Obama released the memos with very little redaction, or “blacking out” of information (CIA black outs can run for several pages, [...]

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