Torture and Morality

Heard this on NPR this morning. But hey, Mr. President, I thought it was just a few "bad apples." Well, fellow moral-type-people, we have an administration that has never clearly identified its role in or its response to torture. Torture! Remember? The kind of stuff we chastized the former despotic leader of Iraq of?

Sigh. Sometimes it is just too depressing. The most immoral administration in years (yes, more than Clinton) and the people keeping them there? The people who believe in, yes, morality. Yikes.

It Never Ends - The Latest on Torture from the ACLU Files

Looks like the documents obtained by the ACLU under the freedom of information act continue to provide new insight into detainee abuse. I'm not going to summarize the latest reports - it's too depressing and I just don't have the heart. Read this article for the highlights. What popped out for me, beyond the obvious reinforcement that abuse was not limited to Abu Ghraib, was the allegation that the Army doles out much harsher punishments to soldiers for stealing from detainees than they hand out for abusing detainees. That tells us something about the Army's view of the seriousness of detainee abuse.