Seymour Hersh's Article Is Up

Here. And it's even worse than I thought. Put it this way: The world is so fucked up that the people inside the government that we wish were in charge are the CIA. That's right, the crack-dealing, Castro-assassination-bungling, couldn't-see-the-fall-of -Communism-or-9/11 CIA. They're the grownups at the moment.

Specifically, the Pentagon has essentially been given carte blanche to operate all over the world without Congressional oversight, all by executive order. Seems to me that should be impossible in a democracy. So now the military will essentially have the role that a number of different government agencies used to have. Great. Because, after all, when has concentrating power in the hands of the military ever gone wrong, except for, you know, every single time going back to the Caesars?

Suddenly I'm very, very scared.