The Fascist's Fifth Amendment

Here is Addington saying he can't say shit because Al Qaeda is listening. What is this, the Fascist's Fifth Amendment? "I decline to answer on the grounds that Al Qaeda is listening."

Well, I imagine there are a lot of people who feel Addington's words aren't fit to be heard in public, except for the fact that they are heard in private in the dark chambers of Darth Cheney.

Clearly, the Al Qaeda excuse is just a lame attempt to avoid accountablity for criminal actions of Addington and his bosses and sanctioning torture. But, just for the exercise, let's see if we can do what the right wing attack dogs would do if a Democrat tried that line.

"Mr. Addington, how can you sit here, after seven years of chasing bin Laden and coming up empty, and tell us that you can't talk about what you are doing to get al-Qaeda because al-Qaeda might be listening?"