Chertoff Guilty of Giving Advice
In its Really Big Story for Saturday, the NYTimes attempts to paint Homeland Security chief nominee Michael Chertoff with the Gonzales brush.
"Security Nominee Gave Advice to the C.I.A. on Torture Laws," screams the headline. But funny, the story never mentions "torture" in the context of what Chertoff did in his former position. It's all about "interrogation techniques." Are we to believe no one told the headline writer?
Sift through the sensationalism, and what you get is a story about a man who gave good advice to the CIA. "Pain is OK, but not life-threatening pain" is as bad as it gets with Chernoff's opinions. Most were much less dramatic. Yes, you can pretend they're being interrogated by the security officials of another country. No, you can threaten them with death.
This is the kind of advice we'd expect from a government attorney in a country where the intelligence agency knows it's bound by laws and is not free to kill, rape or cut off hands, like many of those they are interrogating did under Hussein.
"Security Nominee Gave Advice to the C.I.A. on Torture Laws," screams the headline. But funny, the story never mentions "torture" in the context of what Chertoff did in his former position. It's all about "interrogation techniques." Are we to believe no one told the headline writer?
Sift through the sensationalism, and what you get is a story about a man who gave good advice to the CIA. "Pain is OK, but not life-threatening pain" is as bad as it gets with Chernoff's opinions. Most were much less dramatic. Yes, you can pretend they're being interrogated by the security officials of another country. No, you can threaten them with death.
This is the kind of advice we'd expect from a government attorney in a country where the intelligence agency knows it's bound by laws and is not free to kill, rape or cut off hands, like many of those they are interrogating did under Hussein.
posted by Laer at 1:05 AM
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