Crimes and Misdemeanors

Check out this great interactive venn diagram of Bush administration criminals over at Slate. The who’s-who of torturers, crooks and liars is about what you’d expect. (Via Matthew Yglesias.)

# posted by Bryan  tags: Alberto Gonzalez, crime, Department of Justice, Dick Cheney, domestic wiretapping, fascism, George W. Bush, imperialism, torture

Known Unknowns

Matthew Yglesias asks Kevin Drum how he knows that the Bush administration isn’t using their domestic wiretapping program in a manner any different from that of the Nixon administration. Not surprisingly, there’s evidence that this has happened. (Via Edge of the American West.)

I also thought this was a great comment on EotAW:

But can he claim it with certainty? Can he rule out that he’s a brain in a vat?

That kind of behavior does not give philosophers a good reputation.

# posted by Bryan  tags: domestic wiretapping, U.S. Politics