Secret torture is secret

Even if the victims told the details of their super-sekrit torture, would it get reported? If it did, would the Guantanamo deniers believe it?

But even money says it's not the methods break new ground or are particularly innovative. The sheer outrageousness of what's being done in the secret prisons is what needs to be kept secret.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.

The government says in new court filings that those interrogation methods are now among the nation's most sensitive national security secrets and that their release, even to the detainees' own attorneys, "could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage." Terrorists could use the information to train in counter-interrogation techniques, according to documents submitted to U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton on Oct. 26.

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Who watches the watchers?

This isn't so much that a fox got into the farmer's henhouse, but the fox doing a hostile takeover of the henhouse. Nice way to steal 40% of your employee's tips, Steve!

The dealers over at Wynn Las Vegas who are none too happy about supervisors taking a share of their tips also are ticked that they can't count their own tip money.

At most casinos, dealers appointed by a toke committee count the tips each day. That money is reported to the payroll department, which splits the money among dealers. When Wynn started giving floor supervisors, reclassified as "team leaders," a 40 percent share of the daily tips, he removed the counting duties from dealers and gave it to casino employees who typically count the house's money. Casino security, rather than the dealers themselves, collect the tips and take them to a count room.

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Don't look behind the curtain!

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (AP) -- President Bush tried to drown out political anxieties about war and sex Wednesday by sounding alarm bells on national security and urging people to "vote Republican for the safety" of the country. Link

But are the children safe from the Republicans? Seriously, who came up with this idea? A Catholic priest?

I guess parents will do anything to try and give their children a boost. Including sending them to work the in cesspool of corruption that is Washington D.C. But, if have to choose who's going to molest your kid, why not have it be by someone in power.

If a pedo were to design his dream program, this has to be it. High school juniors away from home for the first time, delivered to your doorstep, in great selection to boot. The pedo congress critter even gets to request more info, if a particular specimen looks extra tasty. If the pedo was really good at grooming he could use the entire application process to find the most susceptible victims.

Which brings me to wonder, why go public with the Foley IM logs?

That's like the greatest leverage ever. If he stays in office, that kid could write his own ticket. It'd be like having your own personal congressional letter of recommendation writing machine.