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It’s time for another episode of 24 AMIGO - America’s Most Incompetent Government Organization.

• I’ve been rewatching Season Two this weekend, and it’s amazing how different their attitudes were. When Bob and Reza are being interrogated at CTU AMIGO, Tony asks George, “How hard can I push them?” George answers, “Pretty hard.” But no needles are involved. In Season Four (the current one), those guys would have been electrocuted in 15 minutes.

  If you watch the deleted scenes, there’s an atrocious one where Kate is begging Syed Ali’s henchman not to torture her, and she talks about how she lived in Saudi Arabia and knows that Islam is a peaceful religion and then proves it by, I am not making this up, listing the five pillars. That’s the kind of left-wing tripe that Little Green Footballs is always mocking. Glancing at TVTome’s AMIGO Episode Guide, that was mostly written by the same people writing the current season. And that makes me wonder if they don’t have some left-wing card up their sleeve whereby everyone at AMIGO, a la the Seinfeld finale, gets their comeuppance for violating the Constitution.

• Jack’s reintroduction to Mike Fake Dick Cheney was disappointing. These guys are enemies. It should have gone something like this.

  FDC: Hello, Jack.
  JB: Hello, Fake Dick Cheney. Started any wars lately?
  FDC: Jerk.
  JB: Hey, whatever happened to that speechwriter you threw down a flight of steps? Shouldn’t you have gone to jail for that?
  FDC: She was paralyzed and couldn’t accuse me. Now can we PLEASE get to work?
  JB: You know, Sherry was a traitorous lunatic too, but at least Palmer got to hit that.
  FDC: Shut up.
  JB: I know I woulda hit that.
  FDC: Jack, look. We have disagreed in the past, but in this debate, we are on the same side - the side of government run completely amok. Can we work together just this once?
  JB: Rub the phone over your scalp. I want to hear what that sounds like.

• When that lawyer showed up (see, now AMIGO is offensive to Muslims AND Jews) with the US Marshal, I don’t know why Jack didn’t just torture all three of them. He’s above the law.
• And what an ending. Jack resigns to go do something outside of the law. What a sacrifice! He’s only ever done it 39 times before, and served a total of 0 days in jail for it.