From MSNBC today:
One of those present said that when asked, the CIA officers acknowledged that some foreign intelligence agencies had refused, for example, to share information about the location of terrorism suspects for fear of becoming implicated in any eventual torture of those suspects.
Remind me again how torturing suspects was supposed to get us better information, when it was causing other governments to hide suspects from us?
Amnesty International has created an 90-second ad in which, for a few seconds, an actor is waterboarded. It will be showing in UK cinemas next month: I wish they could get it to run here too.
According to Clarence Thomas, this Brandeis professor and visiting scholar at Wellesley was a mediocre employee who only had a job because he had given it to her.
I went to hear Paul Rusesabagina speak at the Maine Center for the Arts tonight. Rusesabagina is the hotel manager whose story was told in Hotel Rwanda. Outside, we were greeted by people handing out literature claiming that Rusesabagina was promoting hate and not supporting the changes that were coming to Rwanda. The hall was fairly packed, with some overflow into the balcony. I took notes while he spoke: for the remainder of this post, I’ll give them to you more or less as I got them: since I didn’t properly hear everything he said, any attempt to clean them up may just make them worse.
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