Outis

For all the nationalists – American exceptionalists – who could never imagine how so many parts of the world became so corrupt:

There is a profound and fundamental difference between an Executive engaging in shadowy acts of lawlessness and abuses of power on the one hand, and, on the other, having the American people, through their Congress, endorse, embrace and legalize that behavior out in the open, with barely a peep of real protest. Our laws reflect our values and beliefs. And our laws are about to explicitly codify one of the most dangerous and defining powers of tyranny — one of the very powers this country was founded in order to prevent.

From “The legalization of torture and permanent detention.”

More on this fine day: 800-900 attacks a week and $2 billion every seven days.

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