Oh good — just what we need from our leading media – further discourse on why torture is a good thing from a columnist who is also America’s top defender of the practice. And of course let’s remember, while we’re at it, never to prosecute Yoo for actions that have shredded our democratic values. After all, we’re all his accomplices… if you believe the media!
Weisberg, Friedman and their ilk should be ashamed of themselves. Kudos instead to Will Bunch, who had it right when he concluded:
“For a much-honored newspaper like the Inquirer to pay someone like Yoo to write a regular column is surely the exclamation point on a dark period in which most of my profession flunked its greatest moral test.
As an American citizen, I am still reeling from the knowledge that our government tortured people in my name. As a journalist, the fact that my byline and John Yoo’s are now rolling off the same printing press is adding insult to injury.”
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