Tuesday, December 9, 2014

The Primary Response of the Right to the Torture Report

++Crickets.

++Give credit where credit is due--the Senate Intelligence Staffers who read through millions of pages of e-mails,interviews, and classified documents in closed quarters. 

++Dianne Feinstein, one of the most vociferous defenders of the CIA, for her guts to stand up to the CIA and the Obama Administration.

++Also Fox News for broadcasting John McCain's speech on the Senate floor against torture--and he called it that.

++Andrew Sullivan for his insistence on bringing this issue to the light of day. Andrew quit his live-blogging at 5PM. It's still worth reading his analysis and the highlights of the report.

++Far from being a partisan report, the thousands of pages of the Senate Intelligence are a meticulous reproduction of that period in time.

++But Andrew Sullivan reminds us that no one was reprimanded,no one resigned,and no one was fired over this very dark day in our history. John Brennen actually said today that torture produced some valuable intelligence--even though the report went overboard in refuting this case by case.

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