Village Voice
by Nat Hentoff

07/21/05

There have been powerful, passionate denunciations of the Bush administration's war on civil liberties at home -- and its continual violations of the universal human rights of its prisoners in Guantánamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But I have seen no pickup in the media of a penetrating American version of Émile Zola's 'J'Accuse' (in the scandalous Dreyfus affair) that appeared in the July 1 Washington Post, 'The Stain of Torture' by Dr. Burton J. Lee III. Dr. Lee was physician to president George H.W. Bush in the White House and is a board member of Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Lee could not be more plain: 'It's precisely because of my devotion to country, respect for our military and commitment to the ethics of the medical profession that I speak out against systematic government-sanctioned torture and excessive abuse of prisoners during our war on terrorism'...

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