[Sosfbay-discuss] Senate Committee Blames Rumsfeld and Rice for Torture

[Brian Good]

The report from the Senate Armed Services Committee was unanimous, 
with no dissent from any of the 12 Republicans on the Committee.

Senator Carl Levin said he hoped  the new administration "would look for 
ways, where appropriate, to hold people accountable."  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121101969.html

The NYT ran an editorial on the report, saying Bush officials "issued legally
and morally bankrupt documents to justify
their actions, starting with a 
presidential order saying that the
Geneva Conventions did not apply to 
prisoners of the 'war on terror'” and saying "A prosecutor should be 
appointed to consider criminal charges against
top officials at the Pentagon 
and others involved in planning the
abuse."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/opinion/18thu1.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp


Locally, the Examiner weighs in, at least on line, with these articles by
Jay McDonough:


http://www.examiner.com/x-243-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2008m12d16-rumsfeld


http://www.examiner.com/x-243-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2008m12d18-NY-Times-calls-for-torture-investigation












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