Another One Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

I swear... if I have to listen to ONE more snide remark about Bill Clinton's indiscretions with Monica Lewinski in the Oval Office, given the unchallenged and un-punished (or flat-out "pardoned") crimes that have unrelentingly been being perpetuated in the White House by King Gee-DUH-baya and his merry band of hooligans  gangsters  anal orifices  "Administrators", I'm gonna, as Scrooge once so succinctly put it, " boil the utterer in their own pudding and bury them with a stake of holly through their heart ". Compared to what's been going on under the Bush Administration for the past seven years, Clinton's blow-job makes about as much of a significant "blip" on the political and historical radar screen as a teddy bear tea party.

Our latest emerging chapter in this ongoing, humiliating political saga is that the C.I.A., in 2005, destroyed all video of its Agents allegedly subjecting suspected terrorists to brutality/torture, inclusive of "water-boarding" (which is a pretty realistic simulation of drowning, if you happen to be on the non-interrogator end of it) during protracted "questioning" and "interrogation" sessions. The C.I.A. Powers That Be, of course, are already kiting their predictable, flotsom-laced "explanations", boiling down, for the most part, to: ' we were merely protecting the identity of our Agent interrogators... some of whom remain active operatives in Iraq '. Yeah, right, Boys... you fellas have no idea how to digitally obscure the Agents' faces and render their voices unrecognizable in order to protect the Agents' identities AND comply with the 9-11 Commission's lawful request to be granted access to any and ALL such evidence. And you also wanna sell us some swampland in Bumfucked, Egypt, correct? I mean, apparently deliberately leaking the identities of covert CIA Agents for purposes of political revenge ain't all THAT bad... Gee-DUH-bayah denounced Scooter Libbey's conviction and sentence ~ and PARDONED the li'l stinker ~ for his complicity in in the furtherance of doing just that... thereby deftly quashing any chance of revealing V.P. Dick ' Rambo ' Cheney's likely involvement in the nefarious caper, as well. . The issue here is not even about whether or not such "interrogation techniques" are lawful and if so, under what circumstances... it's about " If you have no misdeeds/criminal activity to hide, don't HIDE anything, for crying out loud ! "

Now you C.I.A. Bigwigs are claiming that your Agency notified Congressional and White House officials of your intent to destroy these evidentiary materials PRIOR to shredding/erasing/burning/over-exposing/whatevering them, implying that you therefore had their consent to do so... which all such Officials have thus far summarily denied. Furthermore, you disregarded/trampled all over the adamant advice of your own Chief Legal Counsel, Tom Russo, NOT to destroy these very tapes and evidence. Meanwhile, even the most myopic Citizen Magoo can see Dick Cheney's filthy fingerprints all OVER this entire mess.

When will our Government EVER learn that when it screws up, be it intentionally or not, it is ALWAYS its seemingly mandated, obligatory ' Official Cover-Ups ' that resonate throughout history infinitely more loudly than the original misdeed(s), had it/they been honestly acknowledged, assumed responsibility for, and corrected, ever could or would have ever done. And why? Because being the victims/hapless witnesses to/unknowing recipients of fallout from these kinds of shady and often criminal Governmental capers is bad enough... but being collectively taken for complete and utterly stupid fools via bombardment with the lies and slights-of-hand by a Government that obviously firmly believes it can repeatedly and with impunity deceive us into swallowing the feces they're shoveling is what makes such instances live forever on in infamy.

The 9-11 Commission is reportedly livid at the news of the destruction of this evidence... as should be the American public, in toto. In every Federal Code of Law book I've ever perused, they refer to this particular apparent conduct on the part of the C.I.A. as a blatant case of Obstruction of Justice. And in my neck of the woods, John Q. Citizen would be vigorously prosecuted, very likely soundly convicted, and imprisoned for quite some time for committing similar deeds, even at far lesser level of potentially wide-sweeping impact and/or significance.

At the risk of sounding waaaaaaay too simplistic in these modern, technologically hurtling times, my advice to our elected officials and all of their orbiting enablers would be this: Knock it OFF, guys... it's gettin' to be a real pain in the keister.

And to my fellow citizens who've been munching on feces sandwiches for seven years and wondering why our breath is bad...

Wake up and begin devoting at least a modicum of time and effort to familiarizing yourself with, vociferously opposing and speaking out against, and punishing those involved in this type Governmental misconduct ~ by means of legal sentences AND withheld votes. Otherwise, ever increasing numbers of the rest of the world's citizens are going to regard us as mute, apathetic enablers of an ever increasingly prostituted Democracy that is wholly eroding away at a breakneck pace.