Sunday, August 30, 2009

WPost Takes Pro-Torture Side

By Melvin A. Goodman
August 30, 2009

The lead story in Saturday’s Washington Post, headlined “How a Detainee Became An Asset,” provides a one-sided and distorted account of the torture and abuse of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad (KSM) and demonstrates the need for a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission to create a comprehensive and authoritative narrative of the misgovernment of the Bush administration over the past eight years.

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2 comments:

James Young said...

An amazingly nonsensical headline ... unless you consider virtually every headline on this website. One needn't be "pro-torture" to conclude that its use has been achieved the desired ends, even if one assumes --- wrongly --- that "torture" occurred.

Moreover, such a headline demonstrates as considered ignorance of the WaPo editorial line.

Sun Aug 30, 12:54:00 PM 2009
Anonymous said...

This was a great article as usual. I read that article in the Post just the other day and found it just as stupid. I would like to mention one thing though. Perhaps you know this, but according to a Harper's Magazine article I read, by Ken Silverstein there are bout 198 "sworn loyalists" to Al Qaeda. This coming from a 25-year veteran of the F.B.I named Jack Clooney. Even if we had every member on that list (which we don't, the government can only name maybe 1 or 2 that are guilty) the vast majority that were being held at Guantanamo would be innocent. Not to mention thousands that have been arrested including Americans. I think that is something very important to emphasize along with the futility of torture. Here's a link to the article: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/07/sb-al-qaeda-new-members-badly-needed-1151963690

Sun Aug 30, 04:12:00 PM 2009

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