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Monday, November 07, 2005

The Cheney Archipelago

From today’s front-page Washington Post story by Dana Priest and Robin Wright:

Over the past year, Vice President Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects, according to defense, state, intelligence and congressional officials. . . .

Just last week, Cheney showed up at a Republican senatorial luncheon to lobby lawmakers for a CIA exemption to an amendment by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would ban torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners. The exemption would cover the CIA’s covert “black sites” in several Eastern European democracies and other countries where key al Qaeda captives are being kept.

“Any nation that is party to the Geneva Conventions . . . is obligated under international law to investigate those who are alleged to be involved with the formulation of a policy of torture or with its carrying out.” —William Schulz, executive director, Amnesty International

“Tomorrow, after my death, certain people may decide to establish fascism, and the others may be cowardly or miserable enough to let them get away with it.  At that moment, fascism will be the truth of man, and so much the worse for us.” --Jean-Paul Sartre, public intellectual

“ .”—Christian conservatives

Posted by Michael on 11/07 at 02:26 PM
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