The tribunes of the right are standing up for torture--which Joe Scarborough has now justified as an expression of "rational fear," while David Frum asserts, against all evidence, that "we don't know" whether BushCo's torture program helped ensure "the nation's safety."
<http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/scarborough-rational-fear-a-reason-for-torture/>http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/scarborough-rational-fear-a-reason-for-torture/ http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/04/27/walsh_frum/index.html?source=newsletter Actually, we do know that there's not a shred of evidence to back the claim that BushCo's torture program helped protect the nation from another terrorist attack. In fact, there's evidence suggesting that the program only sparked the regime's bogus terrorist "alerts." And there is something else we know: that torture is immoral. It's wrong. That's why the Reagan DoJ rightly prosecuted a quartet of Texas cops for waterboarding suspects to extort confessions: Jason Leopold | Reagan's DOJ Prosecuted Waterboarding Case <http://www.truthout.org/042709J>http://www.truthout.org/042709J It's getting pretty tiresome listening to these people try to argue that the torture had some salutary practical intention or effect. When you waterboard somebody over 180 times-- somebody, moreover, who had already spilled his guts under legitimate interrogation-- you're not doing it because you want to get some useful information, or for any other rational reason. You're doing it because you like to do it, like to have it done. MCM ====== April 27 Cheney should release Iraq memos, outed CIA agent's husband says By John Byrne -- April 27, 2009 <http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/cheney-should-release-iraq-memos-outed-cia-agents-husband-says/>http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/cheney-should-release-iraq-memos-outed-cia-agents-husband-says/ The husband of the CIA agent outed by the Bush Administration in the wake of the Iraq war demanded Monday that former Vice President Cheney release transcripts of his testimony in the CIA leak case after Cheney publicly called for more documents to be declassified in the war on terror. Rove mocked spending on flu preparedness By Raw Story -- April 27, 2009 <http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/rove-mocked-spending-on-flu-preparedness/>http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/rove-mocked-spending-on-flu-preparedness/ Bush's Brain doesn't appear to be quite so prescient in the face of a potential global flu epidemic. Iraq PM: Deadly US raid 'breach' of security pact Agence France-Presse -- Monday April 27, 2009 <http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Iraq_PM_Deadly_US_raid_breach_0427.html>http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Iraq_PM_Deadly_US_raid_breach_0427.html BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said a US raid on Sunday in which a policeman and a woman were shot dead was a "breach" of a landmark security pact with Washington. Exposed: Geithner's ties to Wall St. By JO BECKER and GRETCHEN MORGENSON The New York Times -- April 26, 2009 <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/business/27geithner.html?_r=1&hp>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/business/27geithner.html?_r=1&hp For more go to: <http://www.rawstory.com>http://www.rawstory.com<http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/> http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/ RSS Feeds: <http://rawstory.com/rss.php>http://rawstory.com/rss.php <http://feeds.feedburner.com/rawstory/gKpz>http://feeds.feedburner.com/rawstory/gKpz Facebook: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Raw-Story/20324257234>http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Raw-Story/20324257234 Twitter: <http://twitter.com/rawstory>http://twitter.com/rawstory =========== Kyle F. Hence <mailto:k...@rawstory.com>k...@rawstory.com <http://www.rawstory.com>http://www.rawstory.com ============================================================================================================= To be removed from The Rawstory Wire please reply with "REMOVE" in the subject line. To add your address please send an email to <mailto:k...@rawstory.com>k...@rawstory.com with"ADD" in the subject line. If per chance you are receiving duplicates please let me know and I'll address it. Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to newsfromunderground-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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