Times Log

Wednesday: I found the article about the CIA's approval of the interrogation technique waterboarding very disturbing. I found it absolutely shocking that of all the people that were involved in this decision, none thought to research the origins of the brutal torture. For example, neither the aids to President Bush nor the leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and not even the top two CIA agents pushing for the program did a background check on what they were approving. Had they done so, these individuals would have found that this technique was prosecuted by the United States in war crimes trials after WWII and was used by "despotic governments since the Spanish Inquisition." Naturally, when the heat turned to the government, the Bush administration relied on finger pointing as a means to an end.