You want to hit RED SPIN HARD?....
This is how you do it!!!!!!!
The RED SPIN is that this is not Torture since we train our troops with even tougher tactics...
Lawrence O'Donnell is one of the few people who seems to get what should be said in response to their SPIN which tells me he should have his own show NOW.
I do look forward to seeing what Stewart has to say via the Humor Mode. Maybe I can find that as well...
Why doesn't MSNBC give O'Donnell more time on the AIR?
Why is it the only place you can find this video is over at mediamatters.org?
General McCaffrey goes out on point, not sure where the rest of the retired Defense leaders are but I will keep looking.
Nora O’Donnell: General McCaffrey, let me start with you. The President’s speech was largely a pep rally. How do you think it went?
General Barry McCaffrey: Good. It was the right thing to do. It's hard for me to overstate the degree of respect I have for the agency. I worked with them closely for years. They're disciplined. They're courageous. They're effective. We ought to be grateful they're there.
Having said that, it's almost an out of body experience to me to listen to this debate going on [whether these techniques were torture].
We should never as a policy maltreat people under our control, detainees.
We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during a course of that, both by the armed forces and CIA. [Releasing the memos] was the right thing to do.
We have to move forward.
[snip]
There is prosecutorial discretion. We shouldn't in my view go after the CIA officers involved in this. There is a good argument in my view for reviewing the White House justice council and the Attorney General's office who okayed this.
I think as a policy matter we better find out how thing went so wrong.
Nora O’Donnell: Wow!
My favorite old find on this most important issue..
WWII Vet interrogators denounce torture...
http://crooksandliars.com/...
Huffington as a few current insightful observations..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Two other sources found on the subject while attempting to find some viewpoint from the faith based crowd...
http://www.pubrecord.org/...
http://www.aclu.org/...
I guess they are still working on what they wish to say to their chosen FLOCKS.
If I find anything from any church type leader, I will add it here as an update.
Oh.. Stewart's video link address for the HUMOR MODE..
The embedded code would not work for me.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/...
I could not get the embedded video to load, sorry. Welcome help if you have the right code.
The guy makes me laugh no matter how bad it gets.