Mitt Romney's Pro-torture Gang of Puppet-Masters

AlterNet by Marcy Wheeler | Sep. 28, 2012 (News Analysis)
Memo shows that Mitt's crowd is chomping at the bit to unleash the torturers if he's elected.

Since I noted in August 2011 that Mitt had named two torture architects to his legal advisory committee (Tim Flanigan and Steve Bradbury), I have had zero doubt that Mitt would embrace torture if he were President. So Charlie Savage’s story –reporting on Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 30, 2012

Mitt is pro-torture. We knew that, and he hasn’t hidden that fact. But there are a couple of details about this that are curious. First, note the language here. The advisors worry that if Mitt doesn’t explicitly endorse getting back into the torture business during the election, he might not do so. They want to force his hand before he’s elected to make sure he’ll carry through

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