As a person who belongs to MoveOn.org and who signs online petitions to further human rights, I was heartened to read that President Obama is now open to prosecuting government officials who, under the Bush regime, countenanced torture by making up their own laws to support cruel and inhumane torture that is not only against international laws such as the Geneva Convention but also have been proven not to work.
You may wish to skim over an 18-page memo, printed in today's NY Times, by the former assistant attorney general of the United States that is so chillingly horrible as to defy perception. This man, a member of the Justice Department of our great country, ticks off escalating forms of torture as if he's reciting Grandma's recipe for making chocolate chip cookies.
Talk about Hannah Arendt's "the banality of evil" you will find it right here on your computer screen. Be sure to read on page 18, the final page, that the Attorney General will be happy to assist the reader of the memo should he have further questions. Here's the memo of August 1, 2002.
