The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, like the political leadership of Kentucky, has been taking the Fifth. If you take the Fifth, do they have to stop torturing you right then under the new paradigm that says that we are in a permanent war, and when in war, torture and spying on any of them is legal if 1 in 260 million Americans says so? Homeland Security was fresh off its success as a cumbersome bureaucracy in New Orleans when it was impolitely called the "new Gestapo" by one of the few Americans who are American enough to stand astride...
