The Washington Post having reported last week that the CIA has "black sites" - secret prisons - in eight countries including some Eastern Europe democracies, there is outrage in the Congress. As we might expect.
But it is not outrage about the existence of these secret prisons.
No, it is outrage at the leaks and leakers who talked to the Post.
From my perspective, the perspective of an American brought up to revere the Constitution of the United States and its spirit of decency, open-ness, democracy, legal equality – this is cause for outrage.
Joseph Welch, the Boston lawyer, asked Sen.Joseph McCarthy, "Have you no shame?"
There’s no need to ask that question of the White House today. Like all True Believers, they know the end justifies the means. They have no shame.