Torture Leak Investigation

Letter to the Washington Post

November 8, 2005

Dear Editor:

So now Majority Leader Sen. Frist (R-TN) and Speaker of the House Rep. Hastert (R-Ill) are off on a new crusade for an investigation into who leaked the story to the Washington Post about the treatment of detainees and the use of so-called "black sites" in Eastern Europe and elsewhere by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Are they interested in the fact that U.S. “black planes” are used to ferry suspects to foreign countries to be tortured? NO! Are they interested in the fact that we as a country are in violation of Geneva Conventions that we are signatories of? NO! Are they interested in the fact that the Vice-President of the United States has lobbied the Senate (and since denied) to give the CIA an exemption to allow it to torture prisoners? NO! Are they interested in the fact that the whole world knows of our two-faced approach to torture that condemns others who do just like we do? NO!

Sen. Frist and Rep. Hastert are only interested in who let the cat out of the bag and made the administration look bad. They don’t care how badly and immorally we treat prisoners at “black sites”. Evidently they just want to take the heat off the investigation that is overtaking the White House involving Libby, Rove, and Cheney. Politics first, morality second.