Listen to the attorney-general simply refuse to answer a simple question from a U.S. senator. The hearing yesterday was a staggering low-point in the Bush Justice Department. Gonzales' remaining at the DOJ is now a purely monarchical gesture on behalf of the president.
There is a consistency and pattern to the reports, along with detailed testimony from many FBI agents, that make me believe that using faith to torture prisoners was far from rare.
Gabler is surely onto something in seeing the McCarthyite strain in American conservatism being more tenacious and transmittable, because human resentment is more common and politically potent than agreement about limited government.
