The post links to an article by Alan Dershowitz, writing in the New York Sun, who complains of a double standard applied by the media to him, George Bush and Bill Clinton.
Are you amazed that this drew no response from the MSM?
Me neither.
In a recent interview on National Public Radio, Mr. Clinton was asked, as someone "who's been there," whether the president needs "the option of authorizing torture in an extreme case."
This is what he said in response: "Look, if the president needed an option, there's all sorts of things they can do.Let's take the best case, OK.You picked up someone you know is the No. 2 aide to Osama bin Laden. And you know they have an operation planned for the United States or some European capital in the next three days. And you know this guy knows it. Right, that's the clearest example. And you think you can only get it out of this guy by shooting him full of some drugs or water-boarding him or otherwise working him over. If they really believed that that scenario is likely to occur, let them come forward with an alternate proposal.
"We have a system of laws here where nobody should be above the law, and you don't need blanket advance approval for blanket torture.They can draw a statute much more narrowly, which would permit the president to make a finding in a case like I just outlined, and then that finding could be submitted even if after the fact to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court." ...
Where is Russ Feingold? Where is John McCain? Where are the Democrats who are screaming long and loud about the bill just passed by Congress and signed by the President which specifically forbids torture?
If there is no denunciation of these remarks from the perpetually outraged civil libertarians and ACLU types, there is only one conclusion to be drawn: they are lying about their position.
They have no objection to torture. Their outrage is fake. They lie and lie shamelessly.
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