Hillary. Dianne. Jay. Pat. There are quite a few. Now Jane...
Harman had, in early 2003, at least generic knowledge of the tapes' existence and at least some indication that the CIA might have destroyed them. She felt restricted by classification from saying anything about this publicly, and now what she warned against has come to pass. There's every reason to suspect that the CIA has recorded more interrogations than we currently know of, and has destroyed even more evidence of such than we're presently aware.
Perhaps Harman can shed even more light here. The CIA may not look too kindly on her request to declassify the 2003 letter. As Matt Yglesias writes, it's time for Harman to start snitching. Dare the agency to seek prosecution.
Jane Harman. How much do how many Democrats (of both genders) know about proof of felonious behaviors on the part of the executive branch? Plenty, I bet. Just how loyal are they to their country by not speaking up while there's still time to curb and or punish the perps? How many tapes would have been saved from destruction? How many lives saved, for god's sake, if they been more forthright?
We know there are good guys in both parties. But they're only as good as their willingness to serve the people and the Constitution. How forgiving should we be about a majority we worked hard to elect to Congress but which continues to collaborate in war, graft, bad judgment, and extensive coverup-by-classification?
Update: Glenn Greenwald has put together a history of the Democrats' "complicity" (the right word, but it seems almost too gentle by now) -- the collaboration of the Democrats with administration's illegal actions on. That puts many of us on the left in the difficult position of being delighted the information about administration lawbreaking and coverups is finally coming out, but increasingly unable to support candidates of an opposition party which allowed it to happen in the first place.
And then there's a good Democrat. Scott Horton reprints some of what Sheldon Whitehouse had to say about an out-of-control presidency. Whitehouse sums up the legal boundaries of the current incumbent:
“I don’t have to follow my own rules, and I don’t have to tell you when I’m breaking them.”
“I get to determine what my own powers are.”
“The Department of Justice doesn’t tell me what the law is, I tell the Department of Justice what the law is.”
