Who’s briefing who?
More and more congressman have stood up and stated that the Bush Administration didn’t really brief them. Rockefeller, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was the first who said he wasn’t adequately briefed. Nancy Pelosi was the latest to join the chorus.
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From WaPo:
How the United States became associated with torture is not just a matter of historical interest. And that’s all the more clear today, with the publication of a major New York Times story describing the Bush administration’s ongoing circumvention of national and international prohibitions against barbaric interrogation practices.
Finding out what our government has been doing in our name, and openly debating our interrogation policies, should have been high on the national agenda since the disclosure of the shockingly inhumane treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Few other issues speak so clearly to how we see ourselves as a people — and how others see us. (more…)
