totally unsurprising secret US endorsement of torture

[jrtom]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/04/america/04interrogate.php

A few years ago, this would have been news.

Sadly, now it's to the point that a lot of people will say "it's all lies" or "it's irrelevant", and many more will say "yeah, we knew that already".

Where has our goddamned sense of outrage gone?

Comments

[karjack.livejournal.com]

I think the constant outrage causing this wearying, gray depression sets in around the time we realize that no amount of screaming and making of demands is going to change a damn thing.

I'm still going to write my reps though and ask what they intend to do about it. Though, really, what -can- they do?

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

See my response below.

I know that my Senators are already opposed to Bush's agenda, and that my representative is more or less in line with it. I don't need to change the former, and I doubt I can change the latter. So in some sense all I could hope to do is to change my senators' priorities...which might be worth doing.

I gotta say, while I have as yet no major complaints about either Cantwell or Murray (WA senators), I miss Barbara Boxer from CA. She kicks ass.