Torture Memo Not Grabbing Media Attention

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I think for George W. Bush and Co. to ever be truly taken to task by the media (excluding Air America Radio and Countdown with Keith Olbermann, it's going to have to be a bona fide sex scandal.

I'm talking with a live boy, dead girl, horse or picnic table. And it will have to be a high-definition video recording, from several angles, forensically proven to be 100% accurate. Nothing else seems to stick, and it just doesn't make any kind of sense, really.

During the Clinton Administration, every little nitpicky thing was blown into a scandal. They made shit up and turned it into scandal. Now we have actual very bad things that have been and continue to be done by a hideously power-mad, corrupt administration, and. . .nuffin.' It's almost like there was a deal made with the devil or something.

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Disclosure Of Torture Memo Fails To Grab Traditional Media's Attention

What if they disclosed a torture memo and nobody cared? Yesterday, an 81-page memo, authored by John C. Yoo, who was a deputy in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice at the time of its creation, was declassified and made public. The memo, which, among other things, was used as the rationale for authorizing the torture of government detainees, has long been held to be a savage reimagining of the structure of the Executive Branch and its authority, hostile to the traditional checks and balances that circumscribe the President's authority. And that's stating the matter diplomatically. . .

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