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Secrets and Shame
by Bob Herbert
The New York Times
November 3, 2005
I am shaking as I post this editorial by Bob Herbert, because this is not who I am but as long as these monsters are in power and are committing these atrocities that is a lie. This is who I am as a citizen of this country. I also think the new pictures are on the way soon. :puke::scared::hide:
Ultimately the whole truth will come out and historians will have their say, and Americans will look in the mirror and be ashamed.
Abraham Lincoln spoke of the "better angels" of our nature. George W. Bush will have none of that. He's set his sights much, much lower.
The latest story from the Dante-esque depths of this administration was front-page news in The Washington Post yesterday. The reporter, Dana Priest, gave us the best glimpse yet of the extent of the secret network of prisons in which the C.I.A. has been hiding and interrogating terror suspects. The network includes a facility at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe.
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Worse stories are still to come - stories of murder, torture and abuse. We'll watch them unfold the way people watch the aftermath of terrible accidents. And then we'll ask, "How could this have happened?"