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"There Were Orders to Follow"

"There Were Orders to Follow": The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, "You can often tell if someone understands how wrong their actions are by the lengths to which they go to rationalize them. It took 81 pages of twisted legal reasoning to justify President Bush's decision to ignore federal law and international treaties and authorize the abuse and torture of prisoners."

Today's edition of The Washington Post contains an editorial entitled "Tortured Logic: An infamous memo gets a public vetting -- five years too late."

And The Los Angeles Times contains an editorial entitled "The torture memos, declassified: How did we get here? Justice Department writings reveal the origins of 'enhanced' interrogation."

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 04, 2008 (boomark / email).