Old Times There are Not Forgotten

And you thought $elections had consequences.

The Undead still walk.

HERSH: I’ll make it worse. I think he’s put people left. He’s put people back. They call it a stay behind. It’s sort of an intelligence term of art. When you leave a country and, you know, you’ve driven out the, you know, you’ve lost the war. You leave people behind. It’s a stay behind that you can continue to contacts with, to do sabotage, whatever you want to do. Cheney’s left a stay behind. He’s got people in a lot of agencies that still tell him what’s going on. Particularly in defense, obviously. Also in the NSA, there’s still people that talk to him. He still knows what’s going on. Can he still control policy up to a point? Probably up to a point... he’s still there. He’s still a presence.

[tip o'teh tinfoil to Matt Corley]

This is what helps keep our government, as Chris Floyd says,

...horseshit and fairytales wrapped up in threadbare pieties and Orwellian doublespeak... expect power and money and militarism to carry the day.