Monday, June 25, 2007
Why we Torture
Or Part 2 of the Washington Post series on Richard Bruce Cheney, a man who knows no limits and his evil minions. It is long and detailed so I will just drop this one little tidbit.
A backlash beginning in 2004, after reports of abuse leaked out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay, brought what appeared to be sharp reversals in courts and Congress -- for both Cheney's claims of executive supremacy and his unyielding defense of what he called "robust interrogation."
But a more careful look at the results suggests that Cheney won far more than he lost. Many of the harsh measures he championed, and some of the broadest principles undergirding them, have survived intact but out of public view.
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