The torture memos, Obama and the banality of evil
The Nation
by Richard Kim
04/17/09
Even as President Obama acted in the name of transparency and accountabilty in releasing the Bush administration’s OLC’s torture memos, he made assurances that the CIA agents who used the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ meticulously detailed within would not be subject to criminal prosecution. Glenn Greenwald at Salon, Jeremy Scahill on his blog, David Bromwich at Huffington Post and Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic all have good takes on why Obama’s decision is wrong. I concur. However politically expedient, Obama’s nearly carte blanche absolution of torture was morally wrong, and his justification of it, from a professor of constitutional law, is intellectually dishonest...
https://tinyurl.com/cdx695
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Torture memos reveal brutality of US imperialism
The release of the legal opinions, written by lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2002 and 2005, adds to an overwhelming body of evidence that proves the Bush administration carried out a large-scale and systematic torture operation in flagrant violation of domestic and international law.
https://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/memo-a18.shtml
In quotes: George W. Bush on torture
From a commitment to the worldwide elimination of torture to a defence of waterboarding: President Bush in his own words.
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6113167.ece
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboard
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Scahill
by Richard Kim
04/17/09
Even as President Obama acted in the name of transparency and accountabilty in releasing the Bush administration’s OLC’s torture memos, he made assurances that the CIA agents who used the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ meticulously detailed within would not be subject to criminal prosecution. Glenn Greenwald at Salon, Jeremy Scahill on his blog, David Bromwich at Huffington Post and Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic all have good takes on why Obama’s decision is wrong. I concur. However politically expedient, Obama’s nearly carte blanche absolution of torture was morally wrong, and his justification of it, from a professor of constitutional law, is intellectually dishonest...
https://tinyurl.com/cdx695
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Torture memos reveal brutality of US imperialism
The release of the legal opinions, written by lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2002 and 2005, adds to an overwhelming body of evidence that proves the Bush administration carried out a large-scale and systematic torture operation in flagrant violation of domestic and international law.
https://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/memo-a18.shtml
In quotes: George W. Bush on torture
From a commitment to the worldwide elimination of torture to a defence of waterboarding: President Bush in his own words.
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6113167.ece
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboard
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Scahill
rudkla - 20. Apr, 10:21
