An impromptu national period of mourning began yesterday as the Obama administration released the secret Justice Department documents on forms of torture allowed by the US government during the Bush era.
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-interrogation17-2009apr17,0,436936.story?track=rss
http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2009-04/46341076.pdf
Thank you, President Obama, for making public these horrendous practices done in my name and yours.
May those who stretched the "permissible" this far be punished.
We are all shamed and endangered by this treatment of persons held in US prisons.
In fact, common methods of eliciting confessions from suspects arrested in our cities are also extreme. I served on a jury last summer and was shocked by police and detective interrogation methods described in the courtroom.
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