[Peace-discuss] The Torture question?

[Morton K. Brussel]

An excerpt from Ray McGovern's article entitled "Are Americans really  
better than that?"

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/12/5794/

…Senator Dick Durbin of the Senate Intelligence Committee has  
complained that he was aware that classified information did not  
justify the conclusion in 2002 that Iraq had unconventional weapons,  
but he could not say anything because it was classified! Durbin  
explained:

…We’re duty-bound once we enter that room to respect classified  
information. Everything you hear is supposed to stay in the room…I  
certainly had enough to know that the statements that were made about  
mushroom clouds were not the conclusions of someone in the  
administration who was really being honest about the full debate. But  
you really know, walking in the room, what the rules of the game will  
be.…
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