nytimes.com - 12/14/2008
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Prague FEW post-9/11 issues have produced more anxiety and revulsion than the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of “aggressive interrogation” and the extrajudicial rendition of terrorist suspects to countries that practice torture. President-elect Barack Obama has promised to ban waterboarding ...
nytimes.com - 12/10/2008
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Ethics reform in Illinois is often regarded as
an oxymoron. I hope the arrest of Gov. Rod...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Here are the phrases that Reuel Marc Gerecht just used to describe, among other things, waterboarding, a tehcnique universally regarded as torture since the Middle Ages: ...
Rendition redux?/MIckey I. on torture
Daimnation! —
... Somehow I find it hard to imagine the Globe and Mail running an opinion piece like this one in the NY Times: ...
Safe or clean
Yourish.com —
... but because, faced with some very imperfect choices, this was thought to be the best way to protect the American people.
It’s true that Mr. Obama repeated his pledge to close Guantanamo during his recent “60 Minutes” interview. But he also declined to set a date. No doubt he is now realizing a hard truth. While senators can say what they please and go to sleep untroubled, presidents cannot escape the consequences of their decisions.
Reuel Marc Gerecht goes even further. He points out that the problems with the ...
Neocons, NYT Demand More War, Torture
Antiwar.com Original —
... military, preferring to leave the dirty work to others. Unlike many of his neocon colleagues, Gerecht does speak Farsi and has some actual understanding of what is going on in the Middle East, though with the usual Likudist lean in terms of how he interprets developments. It is astonishing that the New York Times would even print a piece advocating torture, but the article is just one more indication of the access that the neocons have to the nation's editorial pages. Gerecht's " Out of Sight " argues that Barack Obama will undoubtedly recognize the utility of rendition, in ...
Weekend Opinionator: Closing Gitmo, Opening a Can of Worms
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... no better way to do it than to implicate Obama. And the result of that will be to destroy his foreign policy. If the man who represents the second chance this country’s been given around the world to repudiate the horrors of the Bush years is revealed to have perpetuated the same horrors, his credibility and foreign policy will be in shambles. And there are many people buried in the intelligence and military establishments who would be happy to make sure that happens. Trap it may be, but others warn that it’s an unavoidable one — including the former C.I.A. official Reul Marc ...
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