I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder's decision to "review" whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects -- that can be read here -- but I want to write separately about the release today of the 200 Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Glenn Greenwald, Digg
Greenwald highlights the atrocities committed by interrogators in our name by reproducing with minimal comment relevant portions of the CIA Inspector General's report -- very powerful and sickening. He doesn't take the same care in attributing the blame to policies of high government officials, assuming instead that we all understand that. That, I believe, weakens his point that interrogators alone shouldn't be prosecuted when the policies that they were carrying out were approved at the highest levels of the government.
I share Greenwald's revulsion and believe myself that the Bush administration set the tone for the most egregious abuses and specifically approved some interrogation techniques that are illegal and immoral. However, I believe that in this article, Greenwald fails to tie up loose ends regarding administration responsibility (while in linked articles expending a large number of words lambasting his critics). Too bad.