Eleven-dimensional Chutes 'n' Ladders?

Maori prisoners in the Waikato Wars. Illustrated London News, February 1864, from New Zealand History Online.

You read it here first. Or you could have, anyway, if you wanted to. When President Obama issued his signing statement with the signature of the noxious National Defense Authorization Act, last New Year's Eve, I was online almost instantly to let you know that it didn't look so bad after all—that I was pretty sure that he at least really really disliked putting people under indefinite military detention.

Now, from Talking Points Memo via Vyan at Kos, we've got the administration's [jump]

Let's call the whole thing... something else?

When the president signed the defense authorization bill, I actually took the trouble to go through the language on indefinite detention and such in the bill and in Obama's signing statement, and couldn't find anything to be truly paranoid about. And yet the emoprog terror continues (emoprog? I just discovered the word, in a Digby post, and couldn't wait to use it). Of course I'm below amateur in reading legislation, and Glenn Greenwald is an attorney's attorney, so he should obviously know better than I do, unless--well, unless his field of vision is somewhat limited by the assumption of the prosecutorial role?

Not meant to belittle the issues under discussion, but just to make everyone very, very happy. The entire scene, with snappy dialogue and glorious singing, is available but can't be embedded.

Anyhow, I heard something on the radio [jump]