War Crimes: Senior Level Administration Officials Discuss Torture -- "The Principals"

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Posted Thu, 04/10/2008 - 01:58 by GreyHawk
Via YouTube, a video of the ABC News Investigation piece called "The Principals" -- the results of a five-month investigation into the involvement of principal members of the National Security Council and their roles in discussions about what "enhanced interrogation techniques" to use when interrogating alleged high-value Al Qaeda prisoners.

Hat-tip to Red no more of DailyKos who diaried about this, and to SmileySam for providing a link to the video.

Members of the Security Council who discussed and approved these techniques included Vice President Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, George Tenet, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft.

It's amazing to see this kind of critical examination finally making it into the news cycle; are we, as a nation, finally starting to come to our senses? And is there a chance we may finally push for -- and possibly achieve -- action resulting in accountability for these heinous crimes and ongoing abuses of power by Administration officials...?

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GH, it's only after the material events

by luaptifer - 04/10/2008 - 08:47
are made topics of academic discussion, that we will see their exposure.
It's amazing to see this kind of critical examination finally making it into the news cycle; are we, as a nation, finally starting to come to our senses?
Half of the crooks are retired and preparing to cycle through their speaking tour itineraries and lobbying gigs. The other half are making arrangements to do the same (assuming McCain doesn't give them a third chance). In any of these cases, what stands for justice these days is such retrospective dishonorable mention. Seems like we'd better get used to it.

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