Reply #50: Nightline (ABC) started a series Wednesday on torture [View All]

[Hekate]

The program was very thorough. They tracked memoes, they interviewed people, they named names as high as they could (Rumsfeld, absolutely), they got into the business of the posse of JAG lawyers flying to New York to have a private meeting with a prominent human rights lawyer because they were so upset at the overthrow of decent military law. Ted Koppel said unequivocally that any American school child could tell you that America does not condone torture, but that the president and his handlers (I mean advisors) were redefining both the term and the laws that cover it.

Ted said that while it may not be appropriate to have a debate about an issue like torture in the midst of an attack (I think he was saying that when the Towers are falling it's necessary to get the info regardless) that NOW is a very GOOD time to be debating whether and why the US government would ever sanction torture.

At that point he announced that the debate begins tomorrow night, Thursday.

Be there or be square, and may the Goddess of Liberty bless the Nightline crew.

Hekate