ANSWERING THE TORTURE QUESTION

You had to see it to believe it. There it was on the tube last night, Frontline’s “The Torture Question,” documenting more clearly than ever what we already knew, what everybody knows by now, that Abu Ghraib was “a kind of ‘Animal House’ on the nightshift” (to quote former Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger).
Except that Schlesinger’s analogy, however well intended, fails to communicate what really happened, and how far up the chain of command responsibility went. No mystery there, of course. It went right to the very top. Today you can watch online at noon ET, when the documentary will be posted. See how the rule of law was perverted. See how the United States was turned into a Banana Republic by a regime with its head up its ass. In the meantime, join the discussion, which is available now.
— Tireless Staff of Thousands

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