QOTD

Charlie Pierce:

With all due respect, screw the NSA surveillance scheme. You want to see what we've become in our fear and barely suppressed rage, look to Gitmo. We are currently inflicting this barbarism on 45 people who have not been charged with anything and who are protesting the fact that they are being locked away without having been charged with anything. There is one person who can stop this. And please, don't anyone say anything about the problems with the Republican Congress, or what the gobshites will say on Sunday, or anything else. When they can, presidents act. This one must.