A gem of a piece from a couple weeks ago, by Andrew Sullivan. It concerns the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes. Money quote:
Incidentally, Andrew Sullivan is coming to campus on April 8th as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Sullivan self-identifies as a conservative, but he is supporting Barack Obama in 2008 and has been an outspoken advocate against Bush's foreign policy, especially the covert approval of torture. It should be a fantastic talk.
I wish our Democratic candidate(s) could have the chance to debate George W. Bush again about his record. I feel like we are more confident than we were in 2004 (although Kerry won every debate), and we know a lot more about the impeachable crimes Bush has committed. Our party has disagreements which matter, but we have found a collective voice against renditions and torture. But alas, we'll have to settle for trouncing our opponent on the torture question. (Unless it's McCain, of course.)Any reasonable person examining all the evidence we have - without any bias - would conclude that the overwhelming likelihood is that the president of the United States authorised illegal torture of a prisoner and that the evidence of the crime was subsequently illegally destroyed.
Congresswoman Jane Harman, the respected top Democrat on the House intelligence committee in 2003-06, put it as simply as she could: “I am worried. It smells like the cover-up of the cover-up.”
It’s a potential Watergate. But this time the crime is not a two-bit domestic burglary. It’s a war crime that reaches into the very heart of the Oval Office.
Incidentally, Andrew Sullivan is coming to campus on April 8th as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Sullivan self-identifies as a conservative, but he is supporting Barack Obama in 2008 and has been an outspoken advocate against Bush's foreign policy, especially the covert approval of torture. It should be a fantastic talk.
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