Pork Be Gone!

Where does all that money that the Fed creates and that gets taken from our pockets that we send to Washington go? USAspending.gov should be able to tell you.

I'm always for transparency in government at all levels and opening up spending to the internet is one idea whose time has come. For every internet user who surfs the web looking for donkey porn, 2 girls 1 cup, celebrity gossip, and Ron Paul stories, there's another who actually uses the internet for something productive. OK, I confess, I don't surf the internet for celebrity gossip!

Pilfered from Ed Morrissey at Captains Quarters

The CIA Destroyed Interrogation Tapes

I haven't been following the story of the CIA destroying videotapes of interrogations involving waterboarding. But, on its face, it reads like one of those stories where the cover up will be worse than the waterboarding. From Ed Morrissey:

Those who are inclined to shrug this off should rethink their positions. The action of the CIA not only shows disrespect to Congress, the only real check on potential abuse, it may have provided the basis for overturning an important conviction in the war on terror. In a nation based on the rule of law, we cannot allow government officials in positions of power to make up their own rules as they go along. We certainly cannot abide them disseminating false information as Hayden apparently has.

This has my attention now, though we probably won't get the full story before a new administration is in office. We should be fully aware of what is being done in our name. The Bush administration has always said that they don't torture. But with video evidence being destroyed the credibility of those claims certainly should be called into question.