Torture memos coming
Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the White House is moving to declassify—and publicly release—three internal memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the "enhanced" interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration for use against "high value" Qaeda detainees. One senior Obama official... said the memos were "ugly" and could embarrass the CIA. Other officials predicted they would fuel demands for a "truth commission" on torture....
According to the administration official, ex-CIA director Michael Hayden was "furious" about the prospect of disclosure and tried to intervene directly with Obama officials. But the White House has sided with Holder.
I would expect another round of "Obama's endangering the country" to try to transfer the argument to "security" rather than crimes and prosecution. (Maybe that's what Cheney was doing the other day. He certainly has to know about this process.)
posted by mikevotes at
8:05 AM
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This is good news. More Bush/Cheney lies exposed.
Unfortunately, though, a substantial part of our population thinks Jack Bauer should be allowed to do "whatever it takes" to "protect us."
I don't expect a lot of moral outrage no matter what the memos reveal. That's a scandal in itself.
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Patrick, at 9:57 AM
Right. That's why that security argument works.
As for outrage, the economic stuff is drowning everything out. If they were released in a quiet patch, they might get some attention.
Dumping them now is sort of like burying them. Look at how the administration makes other news on the same day.
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mikevotes, at 10:22 AM
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