The Triple Agent

A sad story of the guy who murdered 7 CIA agents in Afghanistan by killing himself. As one might suspect, the CIA had multiple failures leading up to this, most of which were caused by their hurry to (possibly) get Zawahiri. As usual, they ignored several memos from the field detailing why they were going at this guy wrong. I still can't believe they allowed his car onto the base without an inspection.

US: So What if We Break Our Promise

So the President says that we will not prosecute the CIA torturers (nor, it appears the people who ordered them to torture), thus breaking the promise we made in the UN Convention against Torture to do so. The discussion of this issue by the President and in the press has been apalling. So what if they were "ordered" to torture and therefore shouldn't be punished. Did we accept this excuse from the Nazis at Nuremburg? No. As Mr. Nowak says in the article:

"The fact that you carried out an order doesn't relieve you of your responsibility," he was quoted as saying by AP news agency.