Thursday, June 24, 2004
Take This Dump And Shove It!
Here is a link to the press conference where Gonzales officially dumped the torture documents that he, well, dumped (he didn't dump all the docs the administration has, you see):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040622-14.html
Well, the good lawyer yammers on and on about how wonderful and noble the administration has been as they've waged their war on terror, how humane their practices were intended to be, how they never condoned or ordered any torture. But not once does he make any attempt to inform us on exactly how the abuses at Abu Ghraib - or any other detention facility - came about. And this is not because the White House does not now know the process by which they came about, it's simply because they do not want to tell us, they do not want us to know.
Let me repeat: the White House now knows the hows, whys and whens of these despicable deeds. They know the advice they were given via these memos and now we also know a lot of what was given...but we don't know ALL of what was given. And the White House knows what they told Rumsfeld, they know what Rumsfeld told Abizaid, they know what Abizaid told Sanchez, they know what Sanchez told Miller, they know what Miller conveyed to the troops and civilians at Abu Ghraib...
Now, while I grant that the White House might not have known all the details behind these things before the scandal broke, they know ALL of these things now. The reason I know they know this is because I know that they are not stupid enough to fail to find out. The only hope they have of keeping the whole sordid story from coming out is to first find out exactly what the whole story is for only by doing so can they ever know ALL of the steps they need to take in order to contain it.
The White House knows this story but they aren't about to tell it. And don't for a minute believe that the various investigations currently under way will ever reveal the ultimate truth of this story. These investigations will fill in many details of what happened and will uncover a fair number of goats for their scaping but the driving forces behind these scapable deeds will not be revealed by anyone currently aligned, even in small ways, with this administration. The ultimate truth behind these despicable deeds will have to be brought forth by other means.
Most likely, we'll have to be beat it out of them...figuratively speaking, of course.
Here is a link to the press conference where Gonzales officially dumped the torture documents that he, well, dumped (he didn't dump all the docs the administration has, you see):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040622-14.html
Well, the good lawyer yammers on and on about how wonderful and noble the administration has been as they've waged their war on terror, how humane their practices were intended to be, how they never condoned or ordered any torture. But not once does he make any attempt to inform us on exactly how the abuses at Abu Ghraib - or any other detention facility - came about. And this is not because the White House does not now know the process by which they came about, it's simply because they do not want to tell us, they do not want us to know.
Let me repeat: the White House now knows the hows, whys and whens of these despicable deeds. They know the advice they were given via these memos and now we also know a lot of what was given...but we don't know ALL of what was given. And the White House knows what they told Rumsfeld, they know what Rumsfeld told Abizaid, they know what Abizaid told Sanchez, they know what Sanchez told Miller, they know what Miller conveyed to the troops and civilians at Abu Ghraib...
Now, while I grant that the White House might not have known all the details behind these things before the scandal broke, they know ALL of these things now. The reason I know they know this is because I know that they are not stupid enough to fail to find out. The only hope they have of keeping the whole sordid story from coming out is to first find out exactly what the whole story is for only by doing so can they ever know ALL of the steps they need to take in order to contain it.
The White House knows this story but they aren't about to tell it. And don't for a minute believe that the various investigations currently under way will ever reveal the ultimate truth of this story. These investigations will fill in many details of what happened and will uncover a fair number of goats for their scaping but the driving forces behind these scapable deeds will not be revealed by anyone currently aligned, even in small ways, with this administration. The ultimate truth behind these despicable deeds will have to be brought forth by other means.
Most likely, we'll have to be beat it out of them...figuratively speaking, of course.
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