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USA Today weighs in today (5/10/11) on the argument that U.S. torture of detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was instrumental to tracking down Osama bin Laden. Like other outlets, the newspaper does a pretty lousy job of summarizing the evidence. Under the headline “Raid Renews Debate on Interrogations,” reporter Oren Dorell suggests this starting point: […]
When influential institutions treat those responsible for torture as worthy experts, society risks losing things even more valuable than “thoughtful conversation.”
Blogger and Philadelphia Inquirer writer Will Bunch has a review (Attytood, 5/11/09) of how, “by late last year, the world already knew a great deal about John Yoo, the Philadelphia native and conservative legal scholar whose tenure in the Bush administration as a top Justice Department lawyer lies at the root of the period of […]
“First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.” –The official position of the U.S. government from October 23, 2001 until October 6, 2008 Why do I get the impression that this was seen as a feature, not a bug?
