Posted on 04/16/2013 3:25:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
On the day after terrorism struck the Boston Marathon, the New York Times chose a different kind of terror-related story to join it on the front page, from intelligence reporter Scott Shane: “U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes.” Shane and his headline writer harped on the “nonpartisan” nature of the Constitution Project, despite the fact that it clearly leans left …
As for CP’s nonpartisan nature, here’s president Virginia Sloan, hopping off to Belize to escape the second inaugural of George W. Bush (whose administration is the main target of the new report), as captured in the January 17, 2005 Times.
“This does not seem like a hospitable place for Democrats this week,” said Virginia Sloan, president of the Constitution Project, a nonprofit group that studies constitutional issues, who is heading to a spa in Belize. “Obviously, as an ardent Democrat, I was very disappointed by the election results, and in the past, I’ve gone to counterinaugurals at friends’ houses. But this year, there was just so much emotion behind this election, it seemed like a good time to get out of town.” …
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So Virginia Sloan didn’t leave the country for good? Too bad.
NBC Nightly had a related story on this evening’s newscast.
Brian Williams claimed no useful information was extracted by “torture.”
I want to understand that statement a little better....
So Mohamed is sitting under the lights with his CIA Interrogator and he has bamboo shoots under his fingernails and a his arms and legs are broken from having been stretched on the rack and he says to the CIA guy,
“Id like to help but I can only tell you non useful information”
Is that what happened?
Virginia Sloan, president of the Constitution Projectand what's her FR nick?
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