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What color is the sky in Bill Bennett's world?
Virtuous Bill Bennett takes us for a stroll down Hypocrisy Lane in today's National Review, telling us that The Washington Post, not Scooter Libby, is the real threat to national security. Bennett ignores the special prosecutor, the director of the CIA, and the President himself when he tells us that Valerie Plame was not a covert agent. Bennett's source? Shhh! It's a secret!
No, the real crime in Bill's World is that the whole world now knows in which countries the CIA is holding terror suspects. The fact that the CIA was holding suspects abroad has been well known for years. WaPo just identified the countries.
The WaPo story is a legitimate investigation of the administration's failure to abide by the Geneva Conventions with regard to the treatment of prisoners. The CIA knows it can't hold terror suspects in the US, because then it would have to abide by American laws. So it imprisons - and tortures - suspects in former East Bloc countries, using the same prisons where Communist goons once tortured pro-democracy demonstrators.
Ahhh, but freedom is on the march!
4.11.05 19:50