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Adding insult to the injury of giving Brennan such an important invitation, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in "Humane Letters" (what might seem like a sick joke), as fellow honoree, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, applauded from the same platform.
When a number of graduating seniors objected to this profaning of their graduation, President McShane gave a glib gloss on torture and drone killings in these words: "We don't live in a black and white world; we live in a gray world."
(A group that I helped found, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, has written a number of Memoranda on torture and most recently on the CIA's cover-up of torture, an issue completely neglected in the corporate media.)
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