Spencer Ackerman

by NoahA 2-fer tonight, and why not. Attorney General Bill Barr is more than corrupt enough for two memes and many, many more. It starts with Barr aspiring to be Trump's new Roy Cohn, a crooked, dirtbag of a lawyer who ended up being disbarred and cementing his reputation of being the epitome of what it means to say "dirtbag lawyer." Barr is a cover-up specialist, the kind of lawyer that all mobster types gravitate to. No stench is too strong.

In the video above, you can see our friends at Cuéntame calling out corrupt hypocrite Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her scandalous role in the prison-for-profit system. Cuéntame wanted to know why Wasserman Schultz, then head of the DNC was "siding with the Corrections Corporation of America and not her constituents in Southwest Ranches?

(An example of just how redacted the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA detention and torture is. And don’t forget it was the CIA itself who redacted the report, even though they are the ones who are the subject of the report).

A few things have happened since the Guardian decided to storm the Bastille of surveillance with its cultivation of such journalists as Glenn Greenwald and the recruitment of Spencer Ackerman. (We might also place Julian Assange in that heady mix, though that relationship has proven prickly.) The Guardian had found a way of moving outside the humdrum of an often dull leftist sentiment, giving its readers a stronger brew with the assistance of such individuals as former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.