Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/us/politics/24detain.html?hp

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Subject: re: Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases
To: letters@nytimes.com

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To the Editor:

   For too long, the Obama administration has views the torture issue as a backwards-looking distraction from its forward-looking foreign policy goals.  To compartmentalize thus is to ignore the power of our example in the world. As long as it is perceived that the U.S. tortures or countenances torture, we will never win the allies we need to establish a free and sovereign Afghanistan. Without those allies, we're stuck in a quagmire.  Our foreign policy is hostage to our perception, and our perception rests on our seeing that our laws are faithfully executed. Prosecuting torturers seems a fine place to start.

Barry Levine