Friday, March 06, 2009

Seriously, Sign the Petition

We know that torture took place. We know the Bush Administration and some in Congress were involved. The question that remains is, who was involved?

Remember, George Bush dismissed these incidents as "a few bad eggs." But if the chicken laying them doesn't have to answer, then where are we going?

Larison has the best line I've read so far:
Of course, the use of the phrase “witch hunt” today implies a hunt in pursuit of something that does not exist, while we are fairly certain that there were criminals in the outgoing administration who have thus far escaped the appropriate sanctions of the law. The best argument that witnesses testifying against the idea of forming a commission seem to have had is that the abuses of power and crimes in question are not as numerous as they were under Pinochet and apartheid. Now that’s a claim to moral authority.

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