{"id":1694,"date":"2009-04-21T09:17:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T13:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2009-04-21T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T14:23:58","slug":"pressure-grows-to-investigate-interrogations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/04\/21\/pressure-grows-to-investigate-interrogations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Grows to Investigate Interrogations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"New York Times Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/21\/us\/politics\/21intel.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the New York Times story on the pressure that is building up to investigate the use of torture under the Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>It is up to all of us to keep this pressure up.\u00a0 Perhaps the value of the Nuremberg Trials after World War II has diminshed with the passing of time.\u00a0 We need a refresher set of trials to reinforce the strictures against torture and to educate a new generation on the seriousness of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>You can send a message to the <a title=\"OPL Contact Form\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/eop\/opl\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>White House Office of Public Liaison<\/strong><\/a> to express your concerns.<\/p>\n<p>You can sign the <a title=\"MoveOn.org petition\" href=\"http:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/torture\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>petition at MoveOn.org<\/strong><\/a>. I signed the petition with the following additional comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lessons learned from the Nuremberg trials are fading from our collective memory.<\/p>\n<p>We need a booster shot for our moral indignation over torture.\u00a0 Let the world know that there are consequences for those who use torture or try to justify its use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the New York Times story on the pressure that is building up to investigate the use of torture under the Bush administration. It is up to all of us to keep this pressure up.\u00a0 Perhaps the value of the Nuremberg Trials after World War II has diminshed with the passing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}