At OpenEducation.net we have posted a piece on the impact of this administration’s many scandals as it relates to educating our young people and their desire to vote:

http://www.openeducation.net/2007/12/19/no-wonder-our- young-people-dont-vote/

It may be of interest to readers.

Tom Hanson
Editor
OpenEducation.net

“why it destroyed two videotapes of such treatment just five months later”

Because they know they can and get away with it.

The CIA’s arguments fly in the face of current technology. They claim that to reveal the tapes would pose a threat to the identities of interrogators. What nonsense! Didn’t this bunch ever hear of pixilation or “the smudge” or “the big black dot” to obscure the faces of people on tape ...and voices can be altered too.

The laughable part (if this weren’t so serious)is that over and over again, George Bush, Dick Cheney and other administration officials denied the existence of any secret prisons outside the USA. Now the CIA’s central argument is that Kennedy’s order only applied to Guantanamo ...and that the tapes were of prisoners being held at secret prisons elsewhere.

I so wish the major news organizations would start replaying the disclaimers to these secret prisons side by side with the CIA’s current argument. Black - white - stark contrast of lies being exposed for what they are ...evidence of war crimes. This should be done over and over until it sinks into the heads of the American people that THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BECOME.

Where is an Edward R. Murrow when we need the likes of him most?