Proof of Life...

is a term that is used in hostage taking.  Hostage taking is a tool of terrorists.  Torture has been a tool against terrorists.  Noting these as such is not an endorsement or argument.  But...
what is the word and when does it change? 

CIA Director Brennan:  word[!]
/ Pelosi: will of words (?)
(/)will of the people: Rumsfeld/Cheney
(fn)viscous cycle

[!] I think Brennan made a very nuanced and carefully parsed review of the so-called Torture Report.
There is a sense of E.B. White and M.C. Escher in this 4mat.  Let alone Cromnibus.

 

Hint(/)Rib [!].


[Note: E.B. > Elements of Charlotte.
M.C. > not exactly !]



12-16-14 Torture may be watching Meet the Press, I may waterboard myself later.

Gitmo or less.

Justice over there rather than over here.  Authorized war on terror.  Nurse Ratchet.
Authorized use of injustice.

CIA thinks twice on arming Rebels.
Giroux on Neo-Liberalism

The TryAngle of progress?
PIT, CalmPenDium, We R all Right?, 2 Little 2L8
Geometrics!*

 



















*Pardon My Art [!] ~
[False Dialectic?]
~ a. Un-Exceptionalism, b. Punderous Ponderings
Re:ART Forward (Ironically)



Speculative Intelligence

Spoiler alert: I have no access to other than open sources.
I have been very skeptical of Edward Snowden's behavior.*

The following is only speculative. 
BTW: What is the opposite of B.S.? ... S B (Steve Benen)
How to put it very carefully?  The separation of powers is one thing, but intelligence is not just for the executive branch.  The issue coming to logger heads, may show that Edward Snowden had no alternative, when oversight is such as it has become**.  It is hard to believe his actions merit rebuke, if congress's oversight is an oversite[!]  

*Note: (b.s.) =blog searches @2,3&5 / un-Mbeds @1,4&6+(5f)
** or always has been

Tacktick[!] (s.c.) = USC: one of my alma maters & (You Sroll or Click.)
[!]=sarcasm/pun although oversight may be justifiably a pun itself.
Alt B.S. = balanced solutions, Bowles Simpson (see"*"4m@)
[tan gent: to reads]

Time Stanp AM 3-13-14

Light Speed

I was going to quip, a week or few ago, that things are happening faster than I can read.  Well, that has always been the case.  But in particular, things change faster than I could comment on, while others share faster than I could ever keep up with.  Then there are things that I feel have maybe jumped the shark(1) .  Well...that is not exactly the ticket(2) .  But there are issues that I did not even want to get deeper into because the sources^ are too skeptical*.      

*for lack of a better word

Lede or ship?  i.e. L.S. heading[!]
^ Change in the Age of Schism[!], (...), escapement?, Good News Bad News, To Filter [(...)]
  
[Yet to link previous comments.^^]

^^(inserts and cont. 3-12-14)
TIP (Tie-in Process)
TIP (Tome in Progress), NQSNL(Not Quite SNL)
(1) (b.s.)blog search: Tacky, tact, tack..., Jumping the Shark?, (f) An Inconvenient Platonics? , Book by it's cover, memo by it's title: historical?
(2) not exactley the ticket: The Battle of Milieu.

NOTE: * not exaclty ( WATERBOARDING THE LAW )/(  Why OWS is bigger than Left vs. Right. )

MY POINT or aversion: Was touched on by Rachel^^^ Maddow.  GOTO lede** or ship, there is a point.
Then there is context: at this point I want to put 3-9-14 in context bracketed*** by The Battle of Milieu. and the TIP of the ice - berg [!]

**opening paragraph
*** facebook
[anachronism]
^^^(3-13-14) spying is done in secret: to paraphrase RM
If truth is the first casualty of war, the first tool is dissemblance."[!]"
{not the original intent}