So that’s what I call a Sunday night.

Yep, The Princess Diaries was on ABC Family.

But also, the world’s biggest jerkface is dead.

Now, from what I can gather from reading better writers than myself – this operation was an example of the very best of covert action – “24″ meets “Delta Force” – where the only objective is showing up, killing, then leaving.

This is the kind of stuff Erik Holder frowns upon.

But I’d like to think, that these days, folks like Holder aren’t told about this stuff anymore.

And so, here’s the thing about secret prisons and the covert stuff that goes on inside them: you can condemn them all you want, until you need them.

Fact is, unilateral secret action works.

According to the National Journal, the secret team that killed bin Laden has “operated largely with impunity since 9/11,” with some of its interrogators and operators involved … “in torture and rendition.”

And according to Politico, the U.S. discovered Osama’s compound by his “personal courier,” a person identified by terrorist detainees.

I wonder where they were detained, or how that info was retrieved.

Oh Gitmo. You rule.

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From the “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” files:

Rock bands including Pearl Jam and REM have joined a coalition of musicians to support the US president’s efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.

The National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, which also includes former military officers, launched on Tuesday.

Many of the artists who have signed up are angry that their music was used as an interrogation tool in the jail.

But CIA spokesman George Little said music was used only for security, rather than “punitive purposes”. (more…)