Torture Memos Expose Dark, Imperial Presidency
By Robert S. Becker, Ph.D.
This was not a happy week for the torture lobby, nor its defenders, derailing months of charm offensive by Bush-Cheney legacy boosters. A wary President Obama backed off attempts to defuse the torture parade – fretting over divisive investigations and hard-to-win court convictions.
Public indignation likely surpassed February polling when 65% favored torture investigations, 40% criminal prosecutions....
....More revelations are coming, soon from Justice on legal ethics, thus keeping the torture lobby on the run. That torture is “cruel and inhuman,” doesn’t work, marginalized national security, jeopardized future indictments, and fueled terrorist recruitment – that’s why this scandal won’t fade. The media is on board.
If nothing else, we can now assess a terrible national disgrace, Abu Ghraib. Rethink those “few bad apples,” per Donald Rumsfeld’s blatant lie, having authorized prison brutality.
What emerges is the entire rotten apple tree – the planting and force-feeding apples of abuse – farmed by the unholy trinity: Rumsfeld, his bullying pal, V.P. Cheney, and W., the gullible dupe blind to torture on his watch and any potential “war crimes.”
Robert S. Becker, Ph.D.
For more whether torture is legal:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/torture-its-perfectly-leg_b_191336.html
This item was first posted on beyondchron.com
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