Ethics

Horton on CIA Torture Report

By Ed Brayton

Scott Horton has a quick analysis of the CIA Inspector General's report on torture and he makes some very important observations that disprove some of the right wing talking points on the report. For example, one of the chief talking points, repeated especially by Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, was that any investigation of wrongdoing by CIA agents would undermine morale at our intelligence agencies and interfere with their current counterterrorism efforts.

Horton points out that this is not simply a matter of the big bad politicized DOJ against the CIA. In fact, opposition to torture came initially from within the CIA itself.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).