Senate Committee obtains documents and other evidence that "contradict previous accounts by top Bush administration appointees, setting the stage for new clashes between the White House and Congress over the origins of interrogation methods that many lawmakers regard as torture and possibly illegal." Lawmakers, eh? Well, it's not just lawmakers who regard illegal torture as torture and illegal, it seems that "military lawyers raised strong concerns about the legality of the practices as early as November 2002."
We also learn that "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld started to research the use of waterboarding, stress positions, sensory deprivation and other practices in July 2002, months before memos from commanders at the detention facility in Cuba requested permission to use those measures on suspected terrorists." Read the whole thing.
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Heads in the Sand
This is what you get when the weak attain power. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfie, Perle, Addington, Feith ... every one of them a piss your pants, run in circles, and blindly flailing neoconservative. Add in a generous helping (or 10) of incompetence, and you've got our current situation.
Yes, the country was attacked and yes, it was a difficult time, but people with real grit would have understood the need to keep a cool head and the need to control one's emotions. They would have understood the need to remain objective about intelligence. Instead, we have the Bush crowd still howling at the moon. You can now add McSame and Jokin' Schmo Lieberman to that list too.
Posted by LFC | June 17, 2008 12:18 PM