Notes

1) Greenwald takes down Wittes for his ridiculous pretention that he is anything other than Yoo and Addington with a knack for sounding reasonable. Take this, for example, in which Wittes says that he doesn't at all agree that Kiyemba subverted the Supreme Court's holding in Boumediene. Boumediene ordered habeas rights - that is, the ability to challenge your detention and be released if the reasons are found wanting. Kiyemba declared that judges can't order release after all, effectively nullifying the whole point of Boumediene, and oh by the way, the writ of habeas corpus, the only individual right found in the text of the Constitution. Wittes disagrees for the same reason he's pleased that Kagan has recused herself on all things GTMO, leaving an evenly divided court that will be unable to overturn the DC Circuit's surversion and effectively turning the DC Circuit into the supreme court on all detainee issues: not because it is consistent with the law, or even his demented view of possible law (he thinks the government can lawfully detain someone without charges despite the 5th amendment explicitly prohibiting it), but because it ensures that the government can continue to imprison and abuse people who make Benjamin Wittes wet the bed at night. Yes Donny, these men are cowards.

2) Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, said that MLK would support America's ongoing killing of people throughout the world. I don't even know what to say to that. I mean, how does a human being even make their mouth move sufficient to claim that a fervent critic of American imperialism would support American imperialism? Though, to be fair, this is only more mind-boggling than the more widespread and equally psychopathic idea that we're killing for Jesus on account of the fact that people alive today actually knew MLK.