Question for you Tea Party devotees: If you hate government so much, where were you when the Bush administration was building the massive, secret, overreaching, unwieldy national security apparatus after 9/11? Today, more than 1,200 government agencies and 1,900 private companies at more than 10,000 sites, employing a mind-boggling 854,000 people with top-secret clearances, who [...]

So the argument over torture goes on. Dennis C. Blair, Obama’s own national intelligence director, said in a memo that harsh interrogation techniques did provide some valuable information about al Quaeda. This was all Dick Cheney, the former administration’s self-appointed attack dog, needed to enter the fray once more, justifying the unjustifiable and claiming that [...]