Okay, I give up. I normally spend my lunch time at work cruising the net, and often send links home that I think it would be good to write about. Often, unfortunately, I forget to send them. I just spent about an hour searching for a story I read about Obama’s tax haven proposal. I simply couldn’t find it, and I’m running out of time. So, nothing close to original from me today.
In fact, I can do no better than link to My Left Nutmeg, which, along with other selected Connecticut bloggers, made news across the blogosphere with its scoop on Chris Dodd’s take on the torture issue. Chris’s dad was a prosecutor at Nuremberg, so it stands to reason that he might have strong feelings about the issue:
I believe that waterboarding is torture. … Pat Leahy of Vermont has been arguing for a select committee – or a commission, I forget which he’s talked about – to go and review all of this. I agree with him on that. There’s some debate about whether he does it or the Intelligence Committee does it – somebody ought to do it. […]
In a sense, not to prosecute people or pursue them when these acts have occurred is, in a sense, to invite it again in some future administration. If you think it doesn’t mean anything, that you can basically do what you want and we’ll somehow just say, “That was yesterday, today’s today.” Had that handful of people who advocated at the Nuremberg Trials embraced that view – Nuremberg became the symbol of who we were. Even these thugs got a lawyer. Even these thugs had a trial, despite their acts. So we became a symbol of jurisprudence and the rule of law. […]
Let’s not forget that Dodd was a strong voice against the telecom bill, and against FISA. He’s been one of the few politicians who has bothered to make an issue out of civil liberties and constitutional issues, and he deserves re-election for that reason alone.
By the way, I am not bitter about the fact that I was not invited to this Connecticut blogger confab. I don’t feel the slightest amount of resentment. It wouldn’t mention it except that I feel the need to make my total lack of pique explicit.
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