Jim Cooper primary challenge, TV episode on torture prosecutions, and various other matters

(updated below - Update II)

(1) Last year, Accountability Now was created in order, among other things, "to begin actively recruiting and promoting credible primary challengers" to unaccountable, corporate-owned, civil-liberties-destroying Congressional incumbents.  Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee is illustrative of everything rotted about both Washington and Congressional Democrats.  He has repeatedly endorsed the core Bush/Cheney Surveillance and War State policies -...