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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Subject: re: The Torture Debate: The Lawyers
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Subject: re: The Torture Debate: The Lawyers
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From beyond the grave, the Bush department of Justice calls out that the lawyers who signed off on torture are not culpable. Obama's new head of the CIA promises that those who tortured will not be prosecuted. Next, someone will point out that to prosecute Bush and Cheney would look partisan and unseemly. Presto! all culpability for these crimes against humanity can be made to disappear in the crosstalk. What we need from out Executive is less of this hocus pocus and more of one clear voice. Torture is illegal and repugnant in the present, torture was illegal and repugnant when the U.S. was doing it in the recent past, incidents of torture past will be prosecuted in the future, starting today.
Barry Levine
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