Mark Danner: Press Is Obfuscating Torture Issue

[babylonsister]

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Danner: Revealing The Truth About Torture Is ‘Debilitated…By The Practices Of The American Press’ »

On Sunday, journalist Mark Danner revealed a previously secret International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report, which concluded that “the Bush administration’s treatment of al-Qaeda captives ‘constituted torture,’ a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law.”

As The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan noted yesterday, when the Washington Post wrote up the report, they “put the word torture in quotation marks.” Appearing on CSPAN’s Washington Journal this morning, Danner took the press to task for engaging in a “semantic debate” over whether the U.S. committed torture under the Bush administration.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/17/danner-press-torture/

[Solly Mack]

1. They have been from the get-go

and not just them either

The words people choose to use when addressing the crimes of the Bush administration says a lot about their intent.

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[chimpymustgo]

2. Thank you for posting the video.

[LynnTheDem]

4. How does a flat-out "it's TORTURE" = "stongly implied"???????

TORTURE is ILLEGAL under US law and international law.

It is a WAR CRIME.


There ain't nuthin' "IMPLIED" about it.