While it lacks the punch of the excerpted quote, the full text of George Washington’s charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force on September 14, 1775 was as follows: Camp at Cambridge, September 14, 1775. Sir: You are intrusted with a Command of the utmost Consequence sequence to the Interest and Liberties of America. Upon your … Continue reading More on Washington’s torture quote
“Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] … I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a … Continue reading Those who forget the past …
The Senate Intelligence Committee has released its report on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program after 9/11, and the details are being circulated around the world. So NOW can we indict those responsible? Oops, almost forgot. We’re not doing indictments anymore … Continue reading Senate finally releases torture report
Colorado’s Sen. Mark Udall (D), member of the Senate intelligence committee and now a lame duck, is in a unique position to do something critically important. He can read into the Congressional record the Senate’s still-classified 6,000-page CIA torture report. He can do so while still in office and be protected from prosecution by the Constitution’s Speech and Debate clause, … Continue reading Sen. Mark Udall should release secret CIA torture report
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is under fire, justifiably, for her many iterations of what she knew about the waterboarding of terrorism suspects and when she knew it. She has flailed about with a number of protestations and explanations, each sounding more confused than the one before and none agreeing with the CIA’s version. … Continue reading She said, she said
November 14, 2005. That’s the date of my first post addressing the use of torture by the Bush administration. (Run a Pied Type search on “torture” to see the rest.) My mind was made up long before the current, increasingly heated discussion began. Suffice it to say that while the media, the pundits, and the … Continue reading Let the chips fall
