The newsworthiness of this story is not in providing the administration another opportunity to defend its actions post-hoc or conduct PR. It's to show how what they said and what they did don't align; that they sent a bunch of people, absent due process, to be tortured based on lies.

so, in one of your first major acts, you’ve single-handedly destroyed your network’s reputation of objectivity and given the entire staff incentive to leak every single embarrassing, craven, humiliating thing they can to anyone who will listen. now what?

49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin

45. Specifically, we've decoupled economic growth from fossil energy consumption. Coal demand has collapsed. Oil use is flat. Natural gas use is growing but < GDP, even as standards of living have gone up. That's happened because of higher efficiency and decarbonization.