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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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Torture
OK, I'm pretty mad today. Reports are out today indicating that one of --if not the only -- goal of the torturing that's been in the news recently was to get prisoners to (falsely, as we now know) give information about an Iraq/Al Qaida connection. If these reports are accurate -- and I don't know that they are, nor do I think we should assume they are -- this means we were torturing people to elicit false confessions for political gain. We need an investigation ASAP to determine the validity of this claim. And if it proves to be true, I don't see how can't move forward with prosecutions for everyone involved -- and I mean everyone up through the president. We need to make it clear that this behavior is unacceptable.
This is an about-face from my earlier take on this torture stuff, where I wanted to get the truth out but didn't think there was much -- except political gridlock -- to be gained from prosecutions. But now there's much more at stake, and we need to make it clear that -- if this happened -- things went much too far. And for that there must be consequences. I'm not saying we lock everyone up and throw away the key, but we need a trial and if that's the outcome, I wouldn't be upset.
Posted by on 22 April 2009 at 11:26 AM
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