normblog.typepad.com - 4/20/2009
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I have mixed feelings about the way in which the Obama administration has released the secret Justice Department memos from the Bush years which gave guidance to the CIA on permissible methods of interrogation, including torture. It is good that,...
shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 4/21/2009
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shadow.foreignpolicy.com —
By Philip Zelikow I first gained access to
the OLC memos and learned details about CIA's program...
for high-value detainees shortly after the set of opinions were issued in May 2005. I did so as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's policy ...
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The OLC "torture memos": thoughts from a dissenter
online.wsj.com - 4/20/2009
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online.wsj.com —
DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. and LEE A. CASEY
The four memos on CIA interrogation released by the...
White House last week reveal a cautious and conservative Justice Department advising a CIA that cared deeply about staying within the law. Far from "green ...
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The Memos Prove We Didn't Torture
thecable.foreignpolicy.com - 4/20/2009
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thecable.foreignpolicy.com —
As U.S. President Barack Obama appeared at the
CIA Monday, a conflagration sparked by his administration's decision...
last week to release Bush-era memos describing harsh interrogation techniques was having gasoline poured on it. Though Obama pointedly ...
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Bush-era CIA officials push back
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Norm Geras isn't quite so ready: As regrettable as Obama's fudging of this issue - his failure, that
is, to state forthrightly what is being sacrificed to the political
goal of avoiding disunity - are the large numbers of liberal
commentators who simply endorse what he did, as if it were to them the
most routine matter. Of all people, Philippe Sands: Obama is right not to target the interrogators in the sense that real responsibility lies much higher up. No,
that is not how 'real' responsibility is ...
WH Press Secy: There Will Be No Accountability For Torture
Newshoggers.com —
... of your supporters on the left, twisted the law, why are they not being held accountable?
GIBBS: The president is focused on looking forward. That’s why.
There is no sense in which this is fanning the fires to build a popular consensus which might be used to overturn The Establishment's hostility to prosecutions. Instead, it is sheer complicity with law-breaking.
Norman Geras:
Obama cites in defence of his decision a reason that has ...
There's Hope, And Then There's Clapping For Fairies
Newshoggers.com —
... All these statements have one thing in common, as Norman Geras puts it: "it's like water off a duck's back - as if the politics were everything and law and morality of no account." ...
Partisan Witch Hunt Coming
PoliGazette —
... All these statements have one thing in common, as Norman Geras puts it: “it’s like water off a duck’s back - as if the politics were everything and law and morality of no account.” ...
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