If you didn’t read Joseph Lelyveld’s article on torture in the New York Times Magazine this past Sunday, you really should take the time to do so. Print it out and put in the bathroom or something. Here’s a snip related to Abu Ghraib:
However strong the outcry, it wasn’t enough to yield political results in the form of a determined Congressional investigation, let alone an independent commission of inquiry; the Pentagon’s own inquiries, which exonerated its civilian and political leadership, told us a good deal more than most Americans, so it would appear, felt they needed to know. Members of Congress say they receive a negligible number of letters and calls about the revelations that keep coming. ”You asked whether they want it clear or want it blurry,” Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said to me about the reaction of her constituents to the torture allegations that alarm her. ”I think they want it blurry.”
Clearly, we need to do more.
