I think it is this report by Andrew Sullivan, on the torture going on in Gitmo, that is really depressing him. And the fact that the Obama administration refuses to open up about any of it. He wants to believe in them, but finds their unwillingness to expose and pursue the torturers very troubling.
It will probably be this, more than anything else, that eventually causes his break with this administration. Yes, and their unwillingness to move on 'gays in the military.'
Yes, it is true, one has to move cautiously and prudentially (I'm speaking now of the administration), but ultimately, one DOES have to move. Otherwise your words and promises are exposed as sheer sophistry and political talk. And then, because you are weakened, you give your political opponents room to advance (i.e. Scott Brown).
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