The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it.

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.