The missing link; an explanation for Cheney's obsession with torture.
Josh is all over it right here at TPM, and many others are beginning to see the pattern emerging.
They were desperate to convert our national outrage at 9-11 into a war with Iraq, and it sounds as if they nearly drowned more than one poor soul (for all we know, they probably DID drown more than a few) trying to pry out of them a missing link that never existed.
And for all the times they have told us how effective their torture was, we know now that missing link was never found OR forged. So, while the Cheney/Bush junta apparently torture innocents, they were looking for a fictional event.
Imagine the terror those people suffered, especially when they realized that their torturers wanted info they couldn't give them.
So no matter how much truth they choked up, all they got was more drowning.
Cheney's desperation was manifest in other forms around the same time. His outing of Valerie Plame was another chapter. Considering Haliburton's haul from this war, and the fact Iraq's independent oil supply kept the multi-nationals from jacking up the price of gas to $4 a gallon, it is no wonder he was desperate for war.
When that truth committee of Sheldon's gets underway, it might be worth a trip down Haliburton Lane with old Deadeye before his pacemaker malfunctions. Stop for a moment and ponder: All those other desperate acts, from torturing innocent people to outing a federal agent, revolved around Cheney and his Haliburton "non-connections."
If someone wants to look closely into the "why" of it all, Cheney, Haliburton and Torture should all fit into that equation.












All this talk about Fox News and patriots and loyalty and such, lest we forget it is owned and micro-managed by an Australian who has very little interest in American democracy, especially since he can't make them vote like he wants them to anymore.
Not to trash Australia, Murdoch's no more a representative of their free spirit than Sean Hannity is of our American version, but it seems to me that Fox News has NEVER been "American", it has always been managed from the underworld (and I don't necessarily mean "down under".)
The whole concept that Fox News represents anything other than a greedy foreigner's fingers in our American pie suggests we aren't paying attention to some obvious details. Fox is a foreign-owned entity, why do "teabag patriots" so easily forget that.
Murdoch could care less about our constitution, and he hires people based on that fact.
And now he's used his foreign-owned TV business to create a whole new class of confused Americans, whose only recourse is to protest with vague, confused and contradictory slogan s and signs; the "teabag patriots" will henceforth wallow in their shameful hatred, empowered by this foreigner's falsehoods.
Fox News never was "American" and until an American who really cares about his or her country buys Murdoch out, it will never be "American."