my problem with the "Hubris" special

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32. Thanks for the link! That was hilarious in the most awful black comedy way.

We're talking 100's of 1000's dead, millions of refugees, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, a system of disappearing people and sending them to black sites, and a continuing destruction of US civil liberties that US citizens have not yet gotten their minds around in either scope or implications.

President Obama said this: "I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand, I also have a belief that we have to look forward as opposed to looking backward, and part of my job is to make sure that, for example, at the CIA, you've got extraordinarily talented people who are working very hard to make Americans safe. I don't want them to suddenly feel like they've got to spend all of their time at work looking over their shoulders and lawyering... we have not made a final decision but my instinct is for us to focus on how do we make sure that moving forward we are doing the right thing. That doesn't mean that if some have blatantly broken the law that they are above the law, but my orientation is going to be to look forward. ... ... My general belief is that when it comes to national security what we have to focus on is getting things right in the future as opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past."
He has now set up a multinational system of targeted assassination by drones, while ensuring that all "rendering" and "torture" are outsourced to two degrees of deniability.

This is foreign policy, for the most part, so no problem for any American. Except for.... oh yeah... that.