John Brennan, CIA Director, needs to beg for food
Charles P. Pierce sums up why John Brennan, the current head of the CIA, needs to fired:
Actually, John. Your agency did not “live up to the high standards” of the NKVD, but let’s let that slide for the moment. You either stand with the president who appointed you — and took some not inconsiderable heat for doing so — or you stand with the torturers who shamed this country before the world. Either you work for the president or you work for your agency. If your choice is Column B there, then you own everything in the report and you are the current sin-eater on the CIA’s behalf. You take on yourself, not merely the crimes that were committed in the black cells, but the ones that were committed in the sparkling offices of the executive branch and in the sanitized halls of the Congress. (By the way. the Washington Post does us all a great favor by naming the cooperative — and, evidently, easily bribed — countries that the Senate committee hid behind that Crayola box code, and I don’t much care how much the revelation inconveniences the government of Romania.) These include obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, and outright perjury. And, it appears, you’ve clearly made your choice. There’s the door.
Honestly, I don’t understand why anyone (such a John Yoo and Jay Bybee) who had a direct hand in legitimizing or carrying out torture isn’t, at a minimum, looking for work cleaning toilets. Ideally they would be defendants at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.