A MURDERER FOR CONGRESS

(h/t David Weigel)

This is another sad chapter in modern American history. A former Marine officer who cold-bloodedly killed two Iraqi captives won the GOP primary for North Carolina's 7th Congressional District. His vicious nature hasn't been altered by the passage of time:

“For someone who lived through what I lived through, that was very personal to me,” Pantano said. “The idea of people being prosecuted for doing their jobs in what is in fact a war—it struck me that members of Congress were being disingenuous. What our men and women were doing in enhanced interrogations was not torture and the prospect of investigations smacked of politics.”