From the New York Times on New Year’s Eve:
There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes of their sickening behavior. It was impossible to see the founding principles of the greatest democracy in the contempt these men and their bosses showed for the Constitution, the rule of law and human decency.
Read the whole editorial here.
The “men” the editorial references were all lawyers. Alberto Gonzales, then counselor to the president, David Addington, counsel to the Vice President, and counsel to the National Security Agency met with the CIA to discuss the destruction of evidence amounting to obstruction of justice and subversion of the checks and balances of the Constitution. Even if not indicted by a world court for war crimes, even if not indicted for their criminal acts by an American court, these men must be disbarred, in my opinion, for bringing the profession into disrepute.
I can’t sit idle while evil triumphs. Something must be done. As John Goodman’s character keeps repeating in “The Big Lebowski”, this cannot stand. I hate these guys.
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At the same time, the NYT has announced it has added Bill Kristol as a regular columnist.
Why not Kristol? He’s a perfect barometer. He’s been 100 percent wrong 100 percent of the time. Read what he says and the opposite will happen. He’s got a perfect record.
I thought it was interesting the Times would give him a platform from which to blather then announce it ‘cannot recognize our country.’
Between this and Judith Miller, I can’t recognize the New York Times.