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For Your ReadingAugust 31, 2009 8:47am

Tortured Logic

President Obama has indicated he doesn’t want to dwell in the past. But Christopher Hayes, Washington Editor of The Nation compares the 1970s Church Committee, which exposed the dark underbelly of Cold War spy operations, to the present uproar over CIA interrogations of detainees from the War on Terror and concludes:

The danger now isn’t naïveté but cynicism–that we just come to accept that the government will commit crimes in our name under the cover of secrecy and that

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Emmy
For Your ReadingApril 16, 2009 11:34pm

Attention Must Be Paid: America Tortured.

We will have to make up for this for the rest of our lives. Our watch, our penance.

I do not believe that any American president has ever orchestrated, constructed or so closely monitored the torture of other human beings the way George W. Bush did. It is clear that it is pre-meditated; and it is clear that the parsing of torture techniques that you read in the report is a simply disgusting and repellent piece of dishonesty and bad

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Chas