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9 de Diciembre, 2007
Politician, Impeach Thyself
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Democrats, hypocrisy, Impeachment Pie, Torture
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
'The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,' said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.
Whether it's the war in Iraq or illegal surveillance or the abolition of habeas corpus and now the systematic use of torture, it's the Bush administration that conceived of the policies, implemented them and presided over their corrupt application. But it's Congressional Democrats at the leadership level who were the key allies and enablers, never getting their hands dirty with implementation -- and thus feigning theatrical, impotent outrage once each abuse was publicly exposed -- but nonetheless working feverishly the entire time to enable all of it every step of the way.
Ready for a third party yet?
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Comentarios (5)
RC dijo:
You are reminding me why I left the country 28 years ago. I despair that the game will ever be reformed. The Presidential and Congressional campaigns, now are never ending events that continue right through inaugurations and every other period and are processes so damaged that the only hope for a way out lies in derailing this evil. Funding practices must be overhauled and made loophole proof and the campaign period must be greatly compressed.
Canadian elections only have six weeks of campaigning. Shocking, isn't it?
Another angle would be to vastly improve grade and high school teaching of just what the government is supposed to be about and how we can make that happen.
Stupid of me to think any of this will happen, but what else could help the abused and manipulated US citizenry?
Palabras por RC spat forth on el 9 de Diciembre, 2007 at 09:43 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
dijo:
i don't really think it can be reformed. or at least not for a long, long time, or unless riding some novel, unprecedented wave of change. but who knows. bush has so blatantly exemplified corrupt, crazy, and malignant government, by the time we see him in the witness box, this nation may be one furious and desperate-for-change place. i guess that's the hope talking. it keeps coming up, like gas.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
spat forth on el 9 de Diciembre, 2007 at 10:09 AM
RC dijo:
It amazes me that I still have any hope. Logic doesn't support that position. I was skimming the net this AM, and while I didn't read the text yet, I saw somewhere that Oprah says she is working with Obama because she is worried about the country. Not to be rude, but where has she been for the last 35 years?
Palabras por RC spat forth on el 9 de Diciembre, 2007 at 10:25 AM
peasant dijo:
The idea that keeps surfacing in my mind is the concept that our supposed representatives think that secondary oaths of secrecy take precedence over their original oath of office, to support and uphold the Constitution. It is a trend to common. Many know and recognize that the rule of law is selective, especially when those in power can pick, choose, and ignore them as needed. No amount of deflection, obfuscations, denials, memory lapses, or super secret stonewalls can overcome the increasing awareness by other governments and the populations of the world that our nation's government is corrupt and criminal. Our government operates on the assumption that "if you can't prove it" it did not happen. That is not the same criteria used in measuring our worldwide credibility. Increasingly it is not the same criteria being used by the American people. The governmental dis-ease is growing. And yes Nez, it is malignant. Let the dis-ease grow, and the disease will wane. That is why we communicate.
Palabras por peasant spat forth on el 9 de Diciembre, 2007 at 11:32 AM
never dijo:
I am. Most definitely.
Palabras por never spat forth on el 10 de Diciembre, 2007 at 09:44 PM