UPDATE BELOW: My letter to the intrepid journalist, and his oh, so redeeming reply. This morning, Glenn Greenwald had an excellent post about the despicable fear-mongering ad Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol had slapped together to smear not just the Obama DOJ, but basically the entire tradition of western jurisprudence, the evenhandedness of which seems [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2009, 2:59 pm, by cocktailhag, under
WTF?.
Well, the CIA’s IG report on torture was released today, mostly to yawns. So what if we threatened to kill a detainee’s children? Who cares if we said we would sexually assault a detainee’s mother, in front of him, natch… What’s the big deal about staging mock executions, since it appears that we also had [...]
