Before we were so rudely interrupted . . .

It's September, school is back in session, and The War Room is back in operation. I can hear the applause of our dozens of regular readers . . .

Since we last checked in (May), a few things have changed: unfortunately, the handsome dog on the right of the photo has left the building and is swimming in the Big Pond in the Sky; RIP, old friend. But Hogan the Rez Dog is thriving.

More to the point, we now have the secret prisons that we didn't have in May, and the administration wants the CIA to be able to use interrogation methods that our own military has rejected. Phrase of the Day in the proposed legislation: “The act makes clear that the Geneva Conventions are not a source of judicially enforceable individual rights.”

Just a reminder, from Article VI of the Constitution: "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."