http://morewhat.com/wordpress/focus-on-torture-turns-to-pelosi/ To build consensus on issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/focus-on-torture-turns-to-pelosi/#comment-17665 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:05:48 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/focus-on-torture-turns-to-pelosi/#comment-17665 Since posting this article, Jane Harman and Kit Bond were interviewed on The News Hour. Harman looked like she was reading off a prompter or a cue card. But more important, as in the Pelosi PR above, she claims to have submitted a written complaint calling for an end to the 'techniques' and only received a 'perfunctory' reply. And that is where she left it???? Kit Bond suggested things were legal. Those statements will be challenged and it would be helpful to get an authoritative opinion from some body that would be viewed by most people as valid. It is also problematic for operations that by their nature and objectives require an absence of public scrutiny to be effective and might be able to remain that way if public officials were trusted by citizens. Perhaps that is the most damage caused by a lack of ethics in DC, etc. Since posting this article, Jane Harman and Kit Bond were interviewed on The News Hour. Harman looked like she was reading off a prompter or a cue card. But more important, as in the Pelosi PR above, she claims to have submitted a written complaint calling for an end to the ‘techniques’ and only received a ‘perfunctory’ reply. And that is where she left it????
Kit Bond suggested things were legal. Those statements will be challenged and it would be helpful to get an authoritative opinion from some body that would be viewed by most people as valid.
It is also problematic for operations that by their nature and objectives require an absence of public scrutiny to be effective and might be able to remain that way if public officials were trusted by citizens. Perhaps that is the most damage caused by a lack of ethics in DC, etc.

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