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No torture, No exceptions

By Jack M. Balkin

Our frequent colleague Scott Horton has launched a campaign, "No Torture, No Exceptions," focusing on the presidential campaigns. There is a web site setting out the campaign, as well as a video taken from the Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side."

For the record, I continue to be angry after four years at Jim Lehrer for failing to ask a single question about Abu Ghraib in the first "debate" between Bush and Kerry, which ostensibly focused on Iraq. I don't expect anything better from the buffoons who have been in charge of the debates so far. Perhaps McCain and Obama really will liberate themselves from the "debate" format and actually engage each other as human beings on this issue.

I also note that Doubleday will be publishing Jane Mayer's The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, a collection of her indispenable articles on the interplay between that "war" and the use by the United States of torture. It can be "pre-ordered" at a substantial discountl from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

Full post as published by Balkinization on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).