Dispatches from around Blogtopia (™ Skippy):
At Bradblog, a long and thoughtful post by a man whose father was waterboarded by the Japanese during WWII: Says Ernest A. Canning: "...for the moment, if such practices are not finally brought to an end, once and for all, hopefully through accountability for those who justified them --- fixing the facts around the policy --- the President's promise that it won't happen again is little more than a vague wish."
Richard Blair warns us not to be distracted by the shiny object that is torture. The real issue is the Bush Administration's use of torture as a device to gin up a fake connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda to try to justify their illegal war. This one's a must read. So is this one by Larisa Alexandrovna.
Digby gives us another reason to hate Chris Matthews.
Mark Karlin makes the case that premedited murder in the first degree would not be an outrageous charge against Bush officials.
Paul Krugman has a word for torturing people to fabricate a link between a country that did not attack us and an organization that did. (Hint: People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil">M. Scott Peck wrote about it, except that Peck believed in redemption, something that I don't think is possible for this bunch -- certainly not after watching Cheney sneer gleefully about the "good information" they got from torturing people.)
Ornery Bastard thanks Marcy Wheeler for being all over this story. (If you want one place to keep up with all this, you could do worse than bookmark Emptywheel over at FDL.
I'll have more on implications of the Bush Administration resorting to torture to gin up a case against Iraq immediately after the 9/11 attacks as soon as I have more than five minutes to do the research and put a post together. Put on your tinfoil chapeau, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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