Your Reality. . .
by The Old Hippie Because It Can Get A Lot Worse...
| - “Why Do People Believe in God?” Best article of the week, along with the best reader’s comments. Many people continue to clutch to their belief in God, even though there's no evidence of a higher power. Why? - “It's Theirs and They're Not Apologizing” Getting between a broker and his bonus is like... getting between a schnauzer and his lunch bowl. (sort of...) - Obama Lets CIA Keep Controversial Renditions Tool Gone: CIA's secret prisons, torture, Gitmo. . . But renditions??? |  |
we all... can only blame ourselves, and deserve our collective fates.”
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = < B e l o w T h e F o l d > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
A“Below The Fold” bonus Article -
“From Prison to Award for Iraq War Whistleblower”
“On Jan. 26 in Copenhagen, I had the privilege to present to former Danish intelligence officer, Frank Grevil, the annual Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence.
The late Sam Adams was a CIA analyst colleague who challenged the "fixing" of intel- ligence during the Vietnam War.
Thirty-five years later, as we again watched the corruption of intelligence amid the drumbeat for war on Iraq, a small group of Sam's former colleagues formed Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. Our purpose was not only to honor Sam's memory; it was also to show future generations of intelligence officers that it is possible—actually, it is morally required—to expose the lies that facilitate war.”
The above title is a direct link to the full article...
posted by The Old Hippie @ 6:33 AM
1 comments
1 Comments:
may be more to the rendition story than meets the eye...just sayin'...
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_preserves_rendition_in__0201.html
Liberals push back against LA Times story
Many liberal online journalists and bloggers are pushing back against the LA Times story, saying that the paper "got rolled" and/or "punked."
At his blog at The Atlantic, Andrew Sullivan writes about the "rendition canard."
"For some reason, many people on the right and a few within the CIA feel the need to minimize the difference between Obama and Bush on the terror war," Sullivan writes. "And so we are greeted with whoops and hollers because the Obama administration will return to the rendition policies of the GWH Bush and Clinton administrations."
However, Sullivan, Washington Monthly's Hilzoy, Harper's Scott Horton, and Cernig at Newshoggers all beg to differ with the LA Times take on Obama's 'endorsement' of rendition.
"It is not the practice of 'extraordinary rendition' that the Bush-Cheney administration pioneered to supplement its own torture program," Sullivan writes. "It is the practice of capturing terror suspects and rendering them to non-torturing foreign governments for detention, interrogation or prosecution."
Sullivan charges, "The LA Times got rolled by the usual suspects, who seem not to understand how the program changed under Bush-Cheney."
At Washington Monthly, Hilzoy argues that "in addition to announcing that the administration will obey the Convention Against Torture, the administration will also study not whether to send detainees off to be tortured, but how to ensure that our policies are not intended to result in their torture, and will not result in their torture. This seems to me like a very clear renunciation of the policy of sending people to third countries to be tortured."
"The Los Angeles Times just got punked," Scott Horton writes.
Horton adds, "In the course of the last week we’ve seen a steady stream of efforts designed to show that Obama is continuing the counterterrorism programs that he previously labeled as abusive and promised to shut down. These stories are regularly sourced to unnamed current or former CIA officials and have largely run in right-wing media outlets. However, now we see that even the Los Angeles Times can be taken for a ride."
Post a Comment
<< Home