Though I'm not exactly surprised, the new ABC News report that shows that a "Principals Committee" made up of the top Bush Administration officials (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet and Ashcroft) were consulted directly (and in detail) on the use by the CIA of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on Al Qaeda suspects fills me with quite a bit of rage.
When I first skimmed the article, I saw that Ashcroft had been quoted as saying "[h]istory will not judge us kindly," and I had one of my first quasi-pleasant thoughts about the man. Then I realized that it was the fact that the conversations were held in the WH that was the problem, not the torture itself. So fuck Ashcroft. Fuck them all, really, and I hope that history will not, in fact, judge them kindly.
All that being said, I guess I'm just glad that they weren't cheeky enough to call it the "Principles Committee".
When I first skimmed the article, I saw that Ashcroft had been quoted as saying "[h]istory will not judge us kindly," and I had one of my first quasi-pleasant thoughts about the man. Then I realized that it was the fact that the conversations were held in the WH that was the problem, not the torture itself. So fuck Ashcroft. Fuck them all, really, and I hope that history will not, in fact, judge them kindly.
All that being said, I guess I'm just glad that they weren't cheeky enough to call it the "Principles Committee".
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