{"id":3219,"date":"2008-06-21T08:45:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2008-06-21T08:45:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:45:02","slug":"chris-floyd-torturegate-truth-but-no-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"Chris Floyd: Torturegate: Truth, But No Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> by Chris Floyd, <em>Atlantic Free Press<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanticfreepress.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=4124&amp;Itemid=81\">21 June 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has been one of the most extraordinary weeks in modern American history. The many isolated streams of evidence about the Bush Administration&#8217;s torture system \u2013 and the direct responsibility of the Administration&#8217;s highest officials for this vast crime \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/worthington.php?articleid=13015\" target=\"_blank\">have now converged<\/a> into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2008\/06\/great-torture-scandal.html\" target=\"_blank\">a mighty flood<\/a>: undeniable, unignorable, pouring through the halls of Congress and media newsrooms, lashing at the walls of the White House itself. In the course of the past few days, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2008\/06\/18\/BL\" target=\"_blank\">a series of events<\/a> has laid bare the stinking sepsis at the heart of the Bush Regime for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>It began last Sunday with the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/259\/story\/40334.html\" target=\"_blank\">a remarkable series by McClatchy Newspapers<\/a>, detailing the torture, brutality, injustice and murder that has riddled the Bush gulag from top to bottom. Then came <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2008\/06\/hbc-90003099\" target=\"_blank\">fiery Senate hearings,<\/a> in which long-somnolent legislators finally bestirred themselves to confront and denounce some of the torture system&#8217;s architects, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/17\/AR2008061702673.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Cheney pointman William Haynes III<\/a>, who was left reeling, shuffling, dissembling \u2013 and bracing for perjury charges after his blatantly mendacious testimony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/atlanticfreepress.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=4124&amp;Itemid=81\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chris Floyd, Atlantic Free Press, 21 June 2008 This has been one of the most extraordinary weeks in modern American history. The many isolated streams of evidence about the Bush Administration&#8217;s torture system \u2013 and the direct responsibility of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-PV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}