Ethics

Greenwald on Democratic Duplicity and Torture

By Ed Brayton

Glenn Greenwald has an important post about the role that Democrats have played in the Bush torture regime in the past and their continued role in blocking all attempts at prosecution for that regime now. This has been something Greenwald has consistently been saying for the last couple years:

Most people who have spent the last several years (rather than the last several weeks) vehemently objecting to the Bush administration's rampant criminality have been well aware of, and quite vocal about, the pervasive complicity of many key Democrats in this criminality. Just to cite two examples, here is my December, 2007 post entitled "Democratic complicity in Bush's torture regime", and here is another from July, 2008, arguing that Democrats have blocked investigations into Bush crimes because of how it would implicate them; quoting The New Yorker's Jane Mayer as saying that "many of those who might ordinarily be counted on to lead the charge are themselves compromised"; and quoting Jonathan Turley as saying (on Keith Olbermann's program) that "the Democrats have been silently trying to kill any effort to hold anyone accountable because that list could very well include some of their own members."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).