Torturous Reading: Self-Righteous Editors and "The Scary Caterpillar"

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:43:00 +0000

What? "To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush's Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity. Their language is the precise bureaucratese favored by dungeon masters throughout history."

Clay Waters

In Sunday's long masthead editorial, "The Torturer's Manifesto," the paper's self-righteous editorial board bizarrely used the Justice Department's extensive documentation of the interrogation methods used by the C.I.A. against terrorist suspects as somehow extra damning. (Of course, if there had been no documentation, the Times and other liberal outlets would have accused the C.I.A.of untamed lawlessness.)