Torture Memo links
Apologies for not posting for a while - I've not been able to dial in from home, as I switched phone service to NTL, who lost my phone connection, and haven't been able to fix it for 5 days or so now.
Anyway, the blogosphere seems to be buzzing with comment on the torture memo, which is certainly one of the more shocking things I've seen from the Bush administration. A few links on the subject:
- Crooked Timber - good summary piece.
- Michael Froomkin - very detailed legal analysis of the memo. The comments section in here is interesting - scroll down to the comments by Jason about the idea that the leaks are being drip fed to the press via State and the Pentagon trying to get the press to put the pieces together for itself and alert the US public to what is going on. Once I would have said that was a bit conspiracy-theoryish, but now I'm not so sure.
- Brad deLong - scary summary of a Seymour Hersh talk. The suggestion being that there's more and worse to come from Abu Ghraib.
- Whiskey Bar economics - on a slightly different topic, even if Bush and co can be got rid of, this is a pretty sobering view of the US economy. Winning the next election could be a bit of a poison chalice for the Democrats, but probably nothing scares me enough to wish for four more years of Bush.
Posted by MFreestone at June 14, 2004 12:52 PM