Piercing Obama's Latest 'Deal'

In a typically great posting, Charles P. Pierce lacerates the rumored/reported Obama deal with the GOP nuts in Congress--he'll release more material on the Benghazi attack but keep info on drone program secret.   Chas observes, " I swear, if this deal goes through, Lindsey Graham is going to have a woody you could see from space."  And then concludes:

This is what happens when you elect someone -- anyone -- to the presidency as that office is presently constituted. Of all the various Washington mystery cults, the one at that end of Pennsylvania Avenue is the most impenetrable. This is why the argument many liberals are making -- that the drone program is acceptable both morally and as a matter of practical politics because of the faith you have in the guy who happens to be presiding over it at the moment -- is criminally naive, intellectually empty, and as false as blue money to the future. The powers we have allowed to leach away from their constitutional points of origin into that office have created in the presidency a foul strain of outlawry that (worse) is now seen as the proper order of things. If that is the case, and

I believe it is, then the very nature of the presidency of the United States at its core has become the vehicle for permanently unlawful behavior. Every four years, we elect a new criminal because that's become the precise job description.