Wilkerson on the Newshour: Addington changed 200 years of torture policy >

[Stephanie]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/july-dec05/wilk_11-4.html



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RAY SUAREZ: This backing off of the Geneva Accords, Wilkerson says, led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON (Ret.): There's a fine line between the brutal behavior necessary to yield force -- wield force, for the state, and going over that line.

So one of the reasons you have these codes instilled in every soldier's heart, and you have this love of war and so forth, is not just it's American values, but you want to give the leaders, the platoon leaders and the company commanders and the battalion commanders the tools to control this use of brute force for the state.

When you relax those rules, you're inviting real problems; you're inviting the kind of problems we had at Abu Ghraib. I have to go back to the vice president's office and hold it culpable, too, because one of the early-on, aggressive participants in this debate about whether or not America could, in fact, change 200 years of policy was David Addington. He's the person that's replacing Scooter Libby. He was the intellectual legal guru, if you will, behind the discussion about the commander in chief having the right in this new situation -- new situation being the war on terror -- to make exceptions.

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[goclark]

1. Revolving Door of Criminals nt

[SONUVABUSH]

2. surprised?

Are you surprised? I'm not. After all the republicans are liars, thiefs, murders, traitors, torturers, etc etc.

[Stephanie]

5. oh boy

:popcorn:

[annabanana]

3. So Addington and the atty gen were the big torture fans...

When is he going to run out of criminals?

[omega minimo]

4. That whole interview was a DU MUST SEE--- DO NOT MISS IT!

Thank you for posting this, Stephanie.

Also the interview that followed with Margaret Warner. Things were said on NewsHour last night that would roll DUers socks up and down.
:bounce:

[Stephanie]

6. Yep. The cat's out of the bag.

You have people on the Newshour, national network news, talking about the OSP and the lies about WMD and the forgery. It's over for Bush.

[omega minimo]

7. "Sweet" Margaret Warner took the Rong Wing shill by the scruff of the neck

REPEATEDLY and said "NO, THAT'S NOT THE QUESTION" when he tried to deflect topic and spew some canned bullshit.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!somewhat miraculous.