The Shadow CIA

To paraphrase Styx—don't even fucking deny it—the jig is up, the news is out, they've finally found them. The Pentagon's alt-CIA has a name: Strategic Support Branch. Evidently Wonderbra was taken.

Thanks, I'll be here all week. Two shows nightly. Tip your server.

There's no joking about the intent of this little set-up, to evade any kind of congressional, and hence public, oversight or accountability. It is now crystal clear that the Bushian war powers formulation starts with the president as commander-in-chief and ends with the president being able to do as he pleases to whomever he pleases.