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This legacy is precisely why we find President Obama’s recent decision to block the release of more detainee abuse photographs—which span a total of five years’ worth of images and depict a series of extreme interrogation techniques classified as torture, including waterboarding??to be extremely disappointing. Last month, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that the Obama administration planned to release the photographs, citing a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. But, on May 13, the administration changed its mind. The White House?...
...systematic employment of “harsh interrogation techniques” (read: torture) has also drawn into relief the high costs of unchecked hegemony. In October, Michael Mukasey replaced the disgraced Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General, even as he could offer only equivocation on the subject of waterboarding??the precise opposite of the message American leadership must send to former friends and allies abroad...
...endorsement of the two Democratic senators has virtually guaranteed Mukasey’s confirmation as attorney general. Had the two voted against him, the nominee would have never made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Instead, they swallowed his characterization of the debate over waterboarding??that is, simulated drowning of an interrogation subject—as merely hypothetical and drooled over his concern for the rule of law. In the process, they did a disservice to the very Justice Department they hope to rebuild...
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