It’s been several days now, and, near as I can tell, this is still not all that big a story here (other than as part of what Wilkerson is doing viz Cheney), and let’s face it: it’s not going to be. Have we reached the point where we can “move on from the Iraq thing and the Bush thing and the torture thing, and let’s worry about health care and the economy…” a/k/a the John Kerry 2004 electoral strategy…?

I don’t know… It looks like “pragmatism” is the order of the day, until there is enough of an outcry to change it… but this will take an awful lot. Even this story has been dutifully hijacked for the usual partisan purposes by the usual corporate sources, hence the focus on what Pelosi knew, as if she were herself carrying out the torture, or wasn’t threatened with summary arrest by Bush if she said anything, or of course, even if she were actually told anything! But there you are: everything is reduced to a shouting match, and nothing is actual reporting, let alone context, although note, they won’t, for example, set up a shouting match with Pan Am 103 and Lockerbie families, because, well, that wouldn’t serve corporate interests…

Well… keep on getting this out there… we’ve now reached the point where the MSM is now behaving as compilers from “the real news sources”… which ain’t them. Amazing… Well, go get ‘ em!

And here’s TD’s take on it all:
http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001305.html

Andy,

This is truly an outstanding article and your coverage this week has been superb. You, yes you, single- handedly kept this story alive and ensured that we know the truth.

I am none too happy with Obama’s decisions as of late. Releasing the documents was a good move but what good does it do to release evidence of war crimes if you’re not going to do anything about it? We need serious criminal investigations.

Best,
Jason

And at the same time – what do we call the “terrorists” who want others’ resources – who control people and nations as if they all were pawns?

Who are the international real estate lawyers or judges or juries who can find a legal name and sentence for those who confiscate lands and property as if the deeds were their own?

What are they named who bomb to near extinction history and land as if the inheritors and all they have inherited from their earth and their ancestors were “up for grabs” – and the tillers and the educators of the young are forced to wander the earth – lucky if they are fortunate to escape with the shirt on their back?

What do we call the maker’s of modern empire – sculptors of metals hurling fury and leaving screams in their wake? Who are the engineers & wardens who re-invent & invent anew physical and psychological traps of torture? Who are these among us – lauded for courage & skill – who imprison with neither the mitigation of fact or findings nor the light of law?

Who are the ones who run about with our national sanction and yet who hold regard neither for rights nor freedom nor any other sacred trust?

How do we describe those who disregard promises made (whether international, to another nations, to “hired” fighters or to fellow humans who’ve been “trashed”?)

How do we name the inhumane qualities that are more contagious in our time than any swine flu – which make out of the life of the single prisoner hell on earth?

Something other than fighters for freedom, eh?