How Unwarranted!

Emily Bazelon, as usual, has some brilliant commentary. This time it's about how useless Senator Specter's "hearings" actually turned out to be. I applaud his deciding to even hold them, but what will they accomplish? Right from the get-go, Senator Specter guaranteed the answer would be zilch. He did not request documents such as internal memos about the program's legality and there will be no testimony from anyone else. All he got was more "we swear it's legal", "nothing to see here", "move along", and "trust us!" ... and a full year's supply of inappropriate smirks.

Bazelon reports the most appropriate and ironically hilarious moment of the day: at the opening of the hearing, Specter said that requests to swear in the Attorney General (in order to make him slightly less willing to engage in any evasive "truthiness") were "unwarranted."