Details Emerging on U.S. Torture Policy

Jason Leopold at Truthout has posted a summary of information about the role that former CIA employee Mary O. McCarthy may have had in exposing this administration's authorization of torture. Here's a quote:

McCarthy was among a group of former intelligence officials who late last year signed a letter opposing the nomination of Attorney General Michael Mukasey on grounds he would not denounce waterboarding. She alleged that -- two years or so after she and Helgerson completed their report into the agency's interrogation practices -- CIA officials lied to members of Congress during an intelligence briefing when they said the agency did not violate treaties that bar, cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment of detainees during interrogations, according to a May 14, 2006, front-page story in The Washington Post.

The resigned complicity and tacit approval of these medieval interrogation techniques -- both by our national elected leaders and the American populace -- provides the clearest example of the moral declension of society.

Both God and history will surely note that our "values voters" lacked even the most basic commitment to human rights.