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An Inconvenient Truth: Harman Opposed Torture
TalkLeft —
Glenn Greenwald writes: Bush-defending opponents of investigations and prosecutions think they've discovered a trump card: the claim that Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller and Jane Harman were briefed on the torture programs and assented to them. An inconvenient truth to both Republicans and Harman hating liberals - Harman opposed torture: Goss has given only one on-the-record interview on these CIA controversies since leaving the CIA director job. In the December 2007 interview, he said ...
Yes, The Democrats Are Guilty Too
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Greenwald: Punishing politically powerful criminals is about vindicating the rule of law. Partisan and political considerations should play no role in it. It is opponents of investigations and prosecutions who are being driven by partisan allegiances and a ...
Watching the defectives
The Sideshow —
... Glenn Greenwald on what "politicizing justice" really means - that the Villagers may view everything in partisan political terms, even if the rest of us don't: "The inability of so many people (both Republicans and Obama-loyal Democrats) to view the need for prosecutions independent of political considerations is a potent sign of how sick our political culture has become. The need for criminal investigations is motivated by one simple, consummately apolitical fact: serious and brutal crimes were committed at the highest levels of the government, ones that left a trail of ...
‘Politicizing’ Justice
Suburban Guerrilla —
Since it’s Glenn, you should of course go read the whole thing. But this sums up so much:
The inability of so many people (both Republicans and Obama-loyal Democrats) to view the need for prosecutions independent of political considerations is a potent sign of how sick our political culture has become. The need for criminal investigations is motivated by one simple, consummately apolitical fact: serious and brutal crimes were committed at the highest levels of the government, ones that left a trail of many victims. A country that purports ...
War and Piece — ... the President's behalf, through the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and the Chaiman and Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Chairman and Ranking minority Member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, prior to initiation of a special activity authorized by a Finding and associated MON, if any . Related interesting analysis from Glenn Greenwald about the projection involved in GOP pushback that the 'Dems knew too' as a ...
Weekend Opinionator: Enhanced Interrogation of the White House
Opinionator —
... to investigate excesses of the Bush administration’s war on terror.” Well, there’s much to chew over here. But the Opinionator is going to take the president’s advice and “look forward, not backward.” Will there be a truth commission? A criminal investigation? Prosecutions? If so, who will be prosecuted? On what charges? And do the White House and Congress really think they’ll make political hay going down this road? Salon’s Glenn Greenwald holds out hope for harsh justice: Bush-defending opponents of investigations and prosecutions think they’ve discovered a trump card: ...
What Glenn said
Corrente —
Simple, simple stuff:
The failure of the Democratic Party to meaningfully oppose what was done over the last eight years is a crucial part of the story here and light needs to be shined on that as much as anything else. I don't know of a single person who has devoted themselves to arguing for investigations who contests that fact.
You'd think the Democrats would want to clear their names. And ours. Why don't they? Read more…
David Broder: Isolated, Dishonest, or Morally Bankrupt?
Firedoglake —
... provides a depressing example of the type of intellectual dishonesty and moral corruption of Beltway pundits that Glenn Greenwald (among many others) has been assailing in recent ...
Why Doesn't the Left Call for Pelosi's Resignation?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Krauthammer argued last week:
If you are told about torture that has already occurred, you might justify silence on the grounds that what's done is done and you are simply being used in a post-facto exercise to cover the CIA's rear end. The time to protest torture, if you really are as outraged as you now pretend to be, is when the CIA tells you what it is planning to do "in the future."
Some people like Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Glenn Greenwald, and Andrew Sullivan have talked a good game about the need ...
