A Sell-Out Masquerades as Compromise
I want desperately to move away from this issue of the President and his persistent lie that ‘we do not torture,’ but it will not be backed away from.
I want desperately to move away from this issue of the President and his persistent lie that ‘we do not torture,’ but it will not be backed away from.
Exacerbated by weak-kneed reporting and a lack of follow-up, the various media venues have accepted the Rumsfeld template—don’t answer the question asked, rephrase it as a question that’s answerable.
The media keep referring to ‘compromise’ and ‘all parties agreeing’ when there has been none of that and the laws of the world as well as America have been broken. Flagrantly broken. Undeniably broken. Ransacked and illegally dialed-back in time to retroactively prevent administration prison-terms on a scale not seen since the Reagan White House.
There happen to be no CIA administered terrorist interrogations at the present time, because terror suspects have been hastily retrieved from foreign ‘e…