Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Need for Transparency

Andrew Sullivan makes a good, strong case for why Obama and his administration need to make public Bush-Cheney memos describing torture techniques. Sullivan's argument is worth reading. The reckoning would be painful for all of us, but how else do we as a civil society rebuild our laws and confirm our ability to protect basic human rights, not to mention our commitment to the Geneva Convention?

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