Hmm, here is a possible scoop from your Department of Rumor, Speculation, and Innuendo: a CIA supervisor just back from Baghdad was reportedly hanging out at a bar in Camp Peary, Virginia, where he got super loaded and started talking crazy talk about putting fire ants on some Al Qaeda guy’s head to “break him.” MORE »

Turns out our whole “have lawyers and neo-con think tankers make up an interrogation policy on the fly, then let untrained soldiers and reservists improvise” policy has resulted in a little bit of torture, here and there. Which, you know, awesome, everyone loves torture, let a thousand Guantanamos bloom, but now it turns out that torture isn’t really that effective, unless you’re trying to get some poor out-of-favor nomenklatura to admit to plotting to kill Stalin. MORE »