The Torture Witch
by
Justin Raimondo
by Justin Raimondo
 It
seems the national commentariat is obsessed with the subject of
torture, and there is talk of a “truth commission” to
investigate and hold the Bushies accountable, up to and including
The Decider himself. This is nothing but a lot of posturing on the
part of liberals who know nothing will come of it: it was clear
from the beginning that holding anyone accountable, never mind prosecutions,
would never happen, and that the revelations of “enhanced interrogation
techniques” are merely the occasion for the release of large
quantities of hot air. That’s because both parties knew about
the “EIT”s (that’s government acronym-ese for enhanced
interrogation techniques, i.e. waterboarding, beatings, sexual humiliation,
etc. ad nauseum). As I wrote
in my “Behind the Headlines” column on April 20:
“The
whole thing was hidden from the public – but not
from congressional leaders, who were informed of the harsh
interrogation methods and never objected or revealed what they
knew.
“This
last is key to understanding one good reason why no
one is being prosecuted, and why the top
Obamaites (although not their rank-and-file followers) are
generously declaring it’s time to “move on.” Going
after the torturers, we’re
told, would be too divisive. Well, yes, it would divide the
Democratic Party, first and foremost, as the complicity of Pelosi
& Co. is made all too clear and it turns out that torture
is a bipartisan sport.”
Just about
two weeks later, in Friday’s [May 8] edition of the Wall
Street Journal, we read:
“Congressional
leaders were briefed in detail about techniques used in the Central
Intelligence Agency’s interrogation program, according to
a new intelligence document.
The document
appears to conflict with recent statements from House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, who was then the top Democrat on the House intelligence
committee. Ms. Pelosi has said she hadn’t been told that
the CIA was using the technique known as waterboarding, or simulated
drowning. According to the document, Ms. Pelosi was one of the
first lawmakers briefed on the interrogations in 2002….
Read
the rest of the article
May
11, 2009
Justin
Raimondo [send him mail]
is editorial director of Antiwar.com
and is the author of An
Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard and Reclaiming
the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement.
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© 2009 Taki's Magazine
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