Earlier in the week, Reuters reported Jane Harman was briefed on the Bush administration’s torture program as far back as 2004.
Yet, in typical fashion, her response to Bush and Cheney was compliance. They told her it was a legal program and she took it at face value.
Anyone who knows anything about waterboarding can tell you it is torture and violates our signed treaties. You don’t need to be a sitting member of Congress to make that determination.
The fact that torture occurred at all tarnishes our country’s reputation Not only that, but the use of torture jeopardizes the safety of our troops, who in turn may be tortured. That a Democratic congress sat on its heels and failed to stop torture is an outrage.
Our elected leaders have an obligation to stand up for human rights – not just when it’s easy – but when it’s unpopular. In the fever of war, that’s exactly when human rights matter most.
Jane Harman has supported war profiteers and personally benefited from their profits.
I would simply vote against perpetual war and for prosecution of anyone, even CIA officials, who violated our laws.
ear Friends,
