Oh. My. God. (The Torture Memos)
The ACLU has them posted.
We have always assumed they were awful.
They are worse than that.
Read the warped, hideous reasoning in the Bybee memo, and ponder the fact that its author is now a federal judge.
Hilzoy at The Washington Monthly is the first person, but probably not the last, I've read comparing them directly to Orwell's 1984.
These were not men who were trying to give honest opinions about what the law permitted. These were men who were trying to bend words and even reality far enough that they could somehow manage to shoehorn in a justification for what the law, both in letter and spirit, forbid.
President Obama is very wrong to suggest that our nation needs to move on. Our nation needs to face these crimes and prosecute them.
We have always assumed they were awful.
They are worse than that.
Read the warped, hideous reasoning in the Bybee memo, and ponder the fact that its author is now a federal judge.
Hilzoy at The Washington Monthly is the first person, but probably not the last, I've read comparing them directly to Orwell's 1984.
These were not men who were trying to give honest opinions about what the law permitted. These were men who were trying to bend words and even reality far enough that they could somehow manage to shoehorn in a justification for what the law, both in letter and spirit, forbid.
President Obama is very wrong to suggest that our nation needs to move on. Our nation needs to face these crimes and prosecute them.
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