This is another of my clippings to/for myself in re: the Bush years. I have no idea how I am going to cobble all of this together with my thoughts, but at least I can assemble some pieces.
Editorial – The Torturers’ Manifesto – NYTimes.com:
To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush’s Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity.Their language is the precise bureaucratese favored by dungeon masters throughout history. They detail how to fashion a collar for slamming a prisoner against a wall, exactly how many days he can be kept without sleep (11), and what, specifically, he should be told before being locked in a box with an insect — all to stop just short of having a jury decide that these acts violate the laws against torture and abusive treatment of prisoners.
white pebble 