Tuesday, February 15, 2005
NYT
Today's New York Times editorial page had a nice summary of torture, prisoner abuse, and extraordinary rendition. Money quote:
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I'd say "read the whole thing," but that's the part that's spot-on. It's here.What's been going on here is not what supporters of the administration's policies depict: an awful but necessary and skilled inquiry reserved for the worst terrorists, who hold secrets that could cost innocent lives. That's the stuff of 21st-century fiction, where Kiefer Sutherland saves mankind with a well-placed pistol butt. This is about a system that was hastily conceived, ineptly formulated, incompetently administered and now out of control. It lowers the humanity of the people who practice it, and the citizens who condone it.
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