Back in the day, when porno was illegal, clever liberals used to wonder why it was OK to make films of people being tortured and murdered, but not to make films of people making love. Well, when it comes to being the director of the CIA, we’re still back in the Fifties: torture and murder are OK, but sex, not so much. Gen. Petraeus is out because he couldn’t keep it in his pants, while John Brennan, currently President Obama’s top counter-terrorism “advisor”/-enabler/congenital liar/murder and rendition enthusiast, is in. Brennan, you’ll be glad to know, does draw the line at waterboarding, at least when it’s done by the U.S.
I previously expressed my lack of enthusiasm for Mr. Brennan here. Glenn Greenwald, of course, has much more.
