A proud recommendation for blogging

[grysar]

Via Glenn Greenwald over at Salon

John Yoo at an April 18 Civil Liberties debate (via blogger Roger Ailes):

[Since 9/11] we have had outpourings of new political speech through new methods and means, for example, uh, people I wish never existed -- bloggers.

This did not exist before 9/11. Are we really in such a civil liberties crisis if bloggers are able to use this new media to say I think quite incredible things?

Hopefully the experience of facing criticism for advocacy for war crimes wasn't too cruel, degrading, or inhuman for him.