{"id":2500,"date":"2005-11-09T02:57:56","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T09:57:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-09T02:57:56","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T09:57:56","slug":"republican-implosion-over-torture-gulags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/09\/republican-implosion-over-torture-gulags\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican implosion over torture gulags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting torture story developing today.  <A HREF=\"http:\/\/lawandpolitics.blogspot.com\/2005_11_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#113146847458762570\">From publius:<\/A><BLOCKQUOTE>According to Drudge (always a shaky way to start), Frist and Hastert are going to announce an investigation not into our mini-gulag in Eastern Europe, but into the leak of the black sites to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>This is EXACTLY why <A HREF=\"http:\/\/lawandpolitics.blogspot.com\/2005_10_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#113055679117409742\">the Espionage Act should be read in the way that I read it.<\/A> By roping Libby within its scope, you give the government a perfect weapon to punish all unfavorable reporting on national security issues. Inevitably, people will abuse the power &#8211; because that&#8217;s what people tend to do. An expansive reading of the Espionage Act will remove a check to corrupt and illegal practices &#8211; which is precisely what Frist and Hastert (surely at the direction of others) are trying to do.<br \/>\n<\/BLOCKQUOTE>Then, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2005_11_06_digbysblog_archive.html#113148081915168608\">here&#8217;s digby:<\/A><BLOCKQUOTE>Whole Lotta Love<\/p>\n<p>Wow. CNN is reporting that Trent Lott just said that the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/01\/AR2005110101644_pf.html\">Washington Post leak<\/A> was probably perpetrated by a Republican Senator! Apparently, the gulag was discussed at the Republican-Senator-only meeting last week in which Cheney begged them to back-off the anti-torture policy.<\/p>\n<p>Lott said, &#8220;we have met the enemy and he is us.&#8221; Man a majority leader scorned is fearsome creature, ain&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>I do find it fascinating that Cheney was discussing this Gulag opernly in front of the GOP caucus after they had just recently voted 90-0 for the anti-torture amendment. Seems old Dick is a little slow on the uptake. He didn&#8217;t learn a thing from his earlier leaking campaign, did he?<\/BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/11\/08\/leak-lott\/\">Think Progress has the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related:   Fox News:<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/11\/08\/why-all-the-fuss\/\"> \u201cWhy All The Fuss About Torturing People?\u201d<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting torture story developing today. From publius:According to Drudge (always a shaky way to start), Frist and Hastert are going to announce an investigation not into our mini-gulag in Eastern Europe, but into the leak of the black sites to the Post. This is EXACTLY why the Espionage Act should be read in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}