Greenwald's book With Liberty and Justice for Some explains the torture mess

[noise]

High level officials (i.e. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, etc.) ordered an absurd program to be implemented. It sure looks like the real intention was a "tough on terror" PR effort which would distract from 9/11 cover-ups and ulterior agendas (i.e. war profiteering). In the US we are told that there is no such thing as high level corruption because our leaders ALWAYS act in good faith. To the point that outright criminality is spun as an attempt to criminalize policy disagreements. So the culpability argument is shifted to the people following the corrupt orders. The high level officials then talk of how unfair it is to pick on dedicated CIA agents who were only concerned with protecting the country. Basically the high level officials hide behind the people they ordered to torture. Sort of like when high level Bush officials implemented a sinister invasion/occupation policy of Iraq and then hid behind soldiers to avoid criticism.

[newfie11]

1. Our government is beyond corrupt

As long as the politicians are paid off by war profiting corporations nothing will change.

Hell The CIA is a war profiting corporation!

[msanthrope]

2. Another thread in GD pushing Greenwald's book? Why? nt

[noise]

3. Because it's a book worth reading nt

[H2O Man]

4. Good answer.

[msanthrope]

5. A book written by a Wall Street Lawyer who kept a Neo-nazi as his litigation pet?

Does he include a section on the time the Center for Constitutional Rights kicked his ass up and down an Illinois courtroom?

[LanternWaste]

9. I doubt that would be germane to a work devoted to contemporary torture practices by Americans.

"...section on the time the Center for Constitutional Rights kicked his ass up and down an Illinois courtroom?"
I doubt that would be germane to a work devoted to contemporary torture practices by Americans.

Ohhh.... I see-- you just wanted to appear clever and make a dig at the author, regardless of how irrelevant the dig is. Cool. My mistake. Too often I fail to account for petulance when reading a post-- I will though, make a mnemonic point to ensure I engage your name with that from now on.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. The wars on Iraq and Afghanistan were both "tough on terror" PR wars. We lost.

[SidDithers]

7. Greenwald. LOL...nt

Sid

[bemildred]

8. Sounds about right. nt