SHAME ON THE NEW YORK TIMES

The left-wing paper wants Dick Cheney and other members of the Bush administration prosecuted for conspiring to commit torture

On December 21, The New York Times editorial board published a call for Dick Cheney and other members of the Bush administration to be prosecuted for conspiring to commit torture. The editorial was published in response to the Senate’s partisan Democrat report on the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ which the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee insisted was torture.

Here are some excerpts from the Times editorial:

Americans have known about many of these acts for years, but the 524-page executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report erases any lingering doubt about their depravity and illegality: In addition to new revelations of sadistic tactics like “rectal feeding,” scores of detainees were waterboarded, hung by their wrists, confined in coffins, sleep-deprived, threatened with death or brutally beaten. In November 2002, one detainee who was chained to a concrete floor died of “suspected hypothermia.”

These are, simply, crimes. They are prohibited by federal law, which defines torture as the intentional infliction of “severe physical or mental pain or suffering.” They are also banned by the Convention Against Torture, the international treaty that the United States ratified in 1994 and that requires prosecution of any acts of torture.

[Those to be prosecuted] should include former Vice President Dick Cheney; Mr. Cheney’s chief of staff, David Addington; the former C.I.A. director George Tenet; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted what became known as the torture memos. There are many more names that could be considered, including Jose Rodriguez Jr., the C.I.A. official who ordered the destruction of the videotapes; the psychologists who devised the torture regimen; and the C.I.A. employees who carried out that regimen.

Apparently the Times does not give a shit that after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon which killed 3,000 Americans our government was concerned with the real possibility that there would be further terrorist attacks on our country. I’ll admit that some of those enhanced interrogation techniques amounted to torture, but so what?! As Newt Gingrich said, “The morning any president finds out that there's a dirty bomb in an American city and we have found the person who knows where that bomb is, we're going to do anything necessary to stop the death of thousands of Americans.”

Shame on The New York Times! The editors of that left-wing rag would rather see thousands of Americans die at the hands of terrorists than for us to use interrogation techniques that could uncover plots to attack targets within our nation.

I consider Cheney and the others singled out for prosecution in the editorial as patriots! The Times editors, on the other hand, are nothing more than traitors!

I commend President Obama and Attorney General Holder for their intention not to prosecute anyone involved in the CIA’s interrogation of terrorist suspects. I just hope they stick to their guns and not cave into the demands of the Times editorial, which by the way, severely criticized them for not prosecuting any of those involved in the interrogations and their bosses.

Many say that The New York Times is good only for lining the bottom of a bird cage to catch the droppings. After this editorial, bird droppings are way too good for the Times.