Sometimes one, well-placed sentence

is all it takes.

It's subtle, but see if you can spot which one caught my attention like a snelled fishing hook to the eye:

From the AP

Democrats want to see interrogation memo

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer

Senate and House Democrats demanded Thursday to see two secret memos that reportedly authorize painful interrogation tactics against terror suspects — despite the Bush administration's insistence that it has not violated U.S. anti-torture laws.

White House and Justice Department press officers said legal opinions written in 2005 did not reverse an administration policy issued in 2004 that publicly renounced torture as "abhorrent."

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller sent a letter to the acting attorney general saying the administration's credibility is at risk if the documents are not turned over to Congress.

The memos are "critical to an appropriate assessment" of interrogation tactics approved by the White House and the Justice Department, Rockefeller wrote to Acting Attorney General Peter D. Keisler. "Why should the public have confidence that the program is either legal or in the best interests of the United States?" the West Virginia Democrat asked.

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., promised a congressional inquiry into the two Justice Department legal opinions that reportedly explicitly authorized the use of painful and psychological tactics on terrorism suspects.

"Both the alleged content of these opinions and the fact that they have been kept secret from Congress are extremely troubling, especially in light of the department's 2004 withdrawal of an earlier opinion similarly approving such methods," Conyers, D-Mich., and fellow House Judiciary member Nadler wrote in a letter Thursday. Their letter to Keisler requested copies of the memos.

The two Democrats also asked that Steven Bradbury, the Justice Department's acting chief of legal counsel, "be made available for prompt committee hearings."

The memos were disclosed in Thursday's editions of The New York Times, which reported that the first 2005 legal opinion authorized the use of head slaps, freezing temperatures and simulated drownings, known as waterboarding, while interrogating terror suspects, and was issued shortly after then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took over the Justice Department.
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Yeah, Jay.

They sure are teetering on the thin edge of not-crediblehood all right.

Why I’d bet all it would take is one more staggering display of contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law and they might just start to lose that thick, lustrous, buttery layer of trust and confidence that Dubya’s brilliant fucking leadership month after month after month these last six glorious years has accreted around his Presidency.

Truth is the matter is, until these traitors and criminals start getting dragged out of the White House by their hair, manacled to chairs in the backs of police stations and interrogated like any other gang of murderous, lowlife, three-strikes perps, this Administration is going to continue to get away with telling the Congress, the Founders and the America people to go piss up a rope.