{"id":902,"date":"2004-06-16T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the-doj-torture-greenlight-with-a-little-more-exposure\/"},"modified":"2004-06-16T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T13:45:46","slug":"the-doj-torture-greenlight-with-a-little-more-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the-doj-torture-greenlight-with-a-little-more-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"the doj torture greenlight, with a little more exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i mentioned it <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/doj_gave_the_white_house_a_greenlight_on_torture.html\">here<\/a> during the reagan legacy week,  with the hope that it wouldn&#8217;t be totally lost in the rush to get reagan&#8217;s head on a <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the_ronald_reagan_america_act.html\">dime<\/a> or a bill or whatever.  i was unplugged from the mass media to a large extent, but the micro-media didn&#8217;t drop it, and the best resource i have found to date is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_06\/004098.php\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> from kevin drum over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/\">washington monthly<\/a>.  this is good, first, because it links most of the original texts (if indirectly), and second, because it&#8217;s generated 162 comments (so far).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI&#8217;ve got something simpler for the plain spoken President Bush: &#8220;We don&#8217;t torture prisoners. Not on my watch.&#8221; Why didn&#8217;t he say that instead and just put the whole subject to rest?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>go there, follow the links around for a while, and then do something.<\/p>\n<p>source documents are here (more directly), because they are that important.  i haven&#8217;t had time to digest this mess myself, but what does it take to get a war crimes tribunal going?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/Philbin_Patrick_20011228.pdf\">Patrick Philbin, December 12, 2001<\/a> [pdf, ~960k]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/Yoo_John_20020109.pdf\">John Yoo, January 9, 2002<\/a> [pdf, ~820k]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/Gonzales_Alberto_20020125.pdf\">Alberto Gonzales, January 25, 2002<\/a> [pdf, ~600k]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/Powell_Colin_200201.pdf\">Colin Powell, response to January 2002 Gonzales memo<\/a> [pdf, ~400k]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/DetaineeInterrogations_20030306.pdf\">Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism:  Assessment of Legal, Historical, Policy and Operational Considerations, March 6, 2003<\/a> [pdf, ~2.7m]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i mentioned it here during the reagan legacy week, with the hope that it wouldn&#8217;t be totally lost in the rush to get reagan&#8217;s head on a dime or a bill or whatever. i was unplugged from the mass media to a large extent, but the micro-media didn&#8217;t drop it, and the best resource i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}