Ethics

Republican Leadership Flees Accountability

By Ed Brayton

With the announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder that John Durham will perform a "preliminary review" of the interrogation practices used on a small number of detainees -- not a special prosecutor, not a grand jury, not an indictment, just a preliminary review -- the right wing is going ballistic, blasting the administration for daring to even consider enforcing our obligations to prevent torture.

Republican leaders in Congress knocked each other over getting to the microphones and TV cameras to denounce even this incredibly mild step as a "witch hunt" that proves that the Democrats don't care about stopping terrorism:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).