Obama just canned the guy who, as reported in this NYT article,

“drafted executive orders banning torture and ordering the Guantánamo prison closed within a year. Over the objections of the Central Intelligence Agency, he recommended the release of Justice Department memorandums describing aggressive interrogations.”

He crossed the CIA, therefore, he must be purged.

Of course, we know this has been in the works for some time. The speculation was that he would be canned as Jesus H. Obama lurched ever rightward in expanding Herr Busch’s abusive, constitution-shredding policies.

I’m surprised that I’ve beaten Greenwald to the punch on this one, but I expect he’ll have a well-researched jeremiad on this by tonight.