The worms begins to turn

First off, when Fourth-graders begins to ask about torture (and Rice has to respond with legalisms to her vain attempt to defend it) then I think we can see signs that the tide is turning.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050301739.html

On top of that, the latest New York Times article featuring dramatic CYA by Porter Goss and Condi Rice is more evidence that things are going south for the torture crowd very fast.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/us/politics/04detain.html?ref=politics

I think that Cheney, Addington, Yoo and others should be getting very, very worried. Their unindicted co-conspirators are scrambling for the exits and they will be left holding the bag. What is interesting is whether Bush, himself, will be held accountable or Cheney will take the fall.

One amazing thing about all this is how quickly it's unravelling. Indeed. if it were not for the economic crisis this would probably be transfixing the nation. The economic crisis will ebb, but the problem for war criminals is that their crimes never become too old to deal with. Cheney's health may eventually save him from the worst ( a la Pinochet), but younger guys like Addington and Yoo may see justice done.

Big disappointment

I was a big fan of Condi Rice and had high hopes for what she would bring to the administration. Needless to say, I've been disappointed.

David Corn lays out some details, here: http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/davidcorn/

Now, Rice has proven to be one of the better one among the Bush circle, but that turns out to be a low bar indeed. While Bush deserves the lion's share of the blame because he's the boss, the brutal truth of the matter is that Rice has not done the kind of job the U.S. public deserved. I'm not entirely sure why that is. She seems intelligent and capable enough, but one wonders if, like many Bush aides, she didn't forget who she was really working for. Remember that hapless aide who told Sen. Levin about her "oath to the president" that prompted a civics lesson from the senator? Did Rice forget that her primary responsibility was to the American people?