“Newt Gingrich has Tweeted that, when he refered to the case of British citizen Richard Reid on the Daily Show last night, he meant to refer to Jose Padilla, a US citizen who was captured by federal authorities and turned over to the military and held by the US Navy for years. Padilla was captured and not Mirandized. He was subject to harsh interrogation techniques. That, ostensibly, was Gingrich’s point. But — and this is a very simple rejoinder — Padilla DID NOT talk when he was held incommunicado.”

But, Newt, Padilla Didn’t Talk

“Very little, and not only is it the case that he (Obama) is deconstructing that framework in only symbolic and inconsequential ways but he’s doing the reverse. Which is, he is finding new and often more effective ways to embrace many of those same instruments and to institutionalize them further.”

Glenn Greenwald answers Bill Moyers question regarding Obama’s war on terrorism policy compared to Bush/Cheney. Moyers asked:

…to what extent has President Obama begun to deconstruct that extra legal apparatus, the excessive secrecy, the use of a extra constitutional means of interrogation. To what extent is he undoing the infrastructure of excessive governmental claims that you wrote about those last eight (Bush) years?