American Views Abroad

 
Roy McGovern, a former CIA analyst, has written The Torture Test, his comment on how the idea for and use of torture took hold in the White House immediately after 9/11 and if Congress will now go down the slippery slope of approving torture.

'....Seldom have moral lines been so clearly drawn. The issue is whether American armed forces and intelligence personnel should be permitted or forbidden to torture detainees.'

www.commondreams.org/views05/1103-31.htm


Remember how at the trials in Nuremberg after WW II, US military police wore white gloves to show how they were above all this? But that was a long time ago.
- posted by Gloria @ 6:05 PM