The Sleep Time and Rise "n" Shine Thread For 5/27-28/09: Shifting The Focus Back On Them; If Sotomayor "Racist", Then So Is Alito

Quick things to share from The Rational Online Network of Networks, or known as T.R.O.N.N.

"Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse" gets deep and brings the discussion back to the Father & Daughter Torture Advocating Tour having a few malfunctions on stage in this recommended diary over at the Kos.

Dickie may be a little panicked because Obama plans to release the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report this summer, maybe even next month. If the cumulative findings of misconduct in this report show that the torture lawyers acted as advocates rather than advisers, then the memos did not constitute appropriate OLC legal advice.

Thus, the Lizzie/Dickie campaign may be their preemptive strike to make their case before the OPR report is publicly released. The stakes are high for Dickie because if the legal advice defense is eliminated, then he will have the impossible burden of proving that the prisoners were not tortured unless he has a Plan B defense.

We have already seen hints of Plan B: Bush was the Unilateral Decider and I just followed orders in my subordinate role! Cheney and Rice have already shifted gears, pointing fingers at Bush and the "administration", respectively, as having authorized the torture rather than relying on the torture memos as "authority" provided by advice of counsel.

And front page video man Jed Lewison and first time recommended diary writer Gangster Octopus highlight Glenn Greenwald's terrific find capturing how conservatives are being hypocritical again in regards to Sotomayor.

How so you ask? Sotomayor has been attacked for potentially putting her life experiences as a Puerto Rican American as part of her decision making. But if conservatives are so peeved by Sotomayor's statement, then where were they when Justice Sam Alito said basically the same thing when he was in his confirmation:


And on that note, here's Tevin! Good night or good morning.