A twitter convo about torture
by digby
So, Chuck Todd had a “tweet the press” with Katherine Hawkins of @openthegov about the Torture Report. Since very few people will see it, I thought I’d just copy some of the highlights here.
Todd should have her on the show rather than the usual pundit gasbags babbling boring talking points for the hundredth timeB but this is better than nothing and I’ll take what I can get.
Todd assumes that nobody will give a damn about this. And he’s probably right — but it’s because the press is going to treat this as business as usual, something only “foreigners” care about apparently, so they won’t give this the treatment it requires. And we will end up taking one more step toward normalizing torture. Again.
Seriously, if nobody is punished and the elites act like this is no big deal, what do you suppose will happen the next time the government determines we need to “take the gloves off?”