Choices

I'll be livid and outraged about this at some point, but I don't really have time right now. If I allowed myself an honest reaction to information (I can't really call it "news", since it isn't) like:

According to two sources—one who has read a draft of the paper and one who was briefed on it—the report describes how one detainee, suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation. According to the sources, who like others quoted in this article asked not to be named while discussing sensitive information, Nashiri's interrogators brandished the gun in an effort to convince him that he was going to be shot. Interrogators also turned on a power drill and held it near him. "The purpose was to scare him into giving [information] up," said one of the sources. A federal law banning the use of torture expressly forbids threatening a detainee with "imminent death."

I'd be marching my way down to DC immediately, with the intention of chaining myself to the gates of the White House and conducting a hunger strike until every single person responsible for this sadistic madness is on trial for the crimes which I, as an American citizen, have been made an unwitting accomplice.

Instead I'll maintain a mile-thick wall of detached irony and just say that taking tips from Gary Busey on any subject, much less an important one like intelligence gathering, is a terribly fucking stupid idea.

UPDATE: The '9/11' on the video refers to the fact that it's the 9th chunk of the movie (out of 11). But it's depressingly apropos, all things considered.