Wednesday, May 30, 2007

ok so I guess it's torture day

Via Andrew Sullivan, download a PDF file of the 9/11 Commission executive director's thoughts on interrogation here. The crux:
[T]he substitution of detailed legal formulations for detailed moral ones is a deflection of responsibility. Such deflections, often unconscious, are too common in our modern age.
Exactly. This is the "enhanced interrogation techniques" -- originally known as verschaerfte Vernehmung. Does that tell you anything, fascists???

I may have to assign Orwell's Politics and the English Language sometime soon. The question is: first week, fascist week, or final week? Can see it useful at any of these points.

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