Legal Commentary

Legacy of September 11th

By Jeralyn

I wonder how many years it will take us to undo the humiliating Bush-Cheney legacy of disrespect for the Constitution and our fundamental principles of justice, and the damage to America's reputation in the world, brought by their regime of torture, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary renditions, Ghost Air, military commission trials and other wrong-headed reactions to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Good reading: An op-ed about Dick Cheney in today's Miami Herald, Fear Was No Excuse for Torture by Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar, former top USMC Generals.

“[W]e never imagined that we would feel duty-bound to publicly denounce a Vice President of the United States,” .... “we feel we must repudiate his dangerous ideas – and his scare tactics.”

If you have any thoughts about the 9/11 attacks, which were 8 years ago today, here's a thread for them.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).