Thursday, May 21, 2009
Critics Still Haven't Read the 'Torture' Memos - WSJ.com
So politicians are being politicians, the media is the media, and the the law is the law.
Apparently, expedience and bias trump the facts once again...
Apparently, expedience and bias trump the facts once again...
Victoria Toensing explains in the Wall Street Journal:
"But now, safe in ivory towers eight years removed from 9/11, critics demand criminalization of the techniques and the prosecution or disbarment of the lawyers who advised the CIA. Contrary to columnist Frank Rich's uninformed accusation in the New York Times that the lawyers 'proposed using' the techniques, they did no such thing. They were asked to provide legal guidance on whether the CIA's proposed methods violated the law.
Then there is Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, who declared that 'waterboarding will almost certainly be deemed illegal if put under judicial scrutiny,' depending on which 'of several possibly applicable legal standards' apply. Does he know the Senate rejected a bill in 2006 to make waterboarding illegal? That fact alone negates criminalization of the act."
