Congress drops ball on torture charges
03/20/05
According to Congress, investigating whether Mark McGwire was pumped up with steroids when he made baseball home run history is a question of vital public concern. But what the CIA and our military are doing to prisoners during overseas interrogations, well, that doesn't merit the same interest. After all, what's at stake isn't our national pastime, it's only our national soul. As human rights groups continue to compile evidence that prisoners held under U.S. control have been brutalized, and as new reports emerge that at least 26 prisoners have died at the hands of our military or intelligence services, Congress twiddles its thumbs...
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/20/Columns/Congress_drops_ball_o.shtml
from St. Petersburg Times, by Robin Blumner
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
According to Congress, investigating whether Mark McGwire was pumped up with steroids when he made baseball home run history is a question of vital public concern. But what the CIA and our military are doing to prisoners during overseas interrogations, well, that doesn't merit the same interest. After all, what's at stake isn't our national pastime, it's only our national soul. As human rights groups continue to compile evidence that prisoners held under U.S. control have been brutalized, and as new reports emerge that at least 26 prisoners have died at the hands of our military or intelligence services, Congress twiddles its thumbs...
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/20/Columns/Congress_drops_ball_o.shtml
from St. Petersburg Times, by Robin Blumner
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 21. Mär, 16:09
