Roll Call’s Emily Heil Fails Journalism 1.0
April 25, 2009 at 11:52 PM Leave a comment
Emily Heil of Roll Call’s “Heard on the Hill” should take a refresher course in journalism. She appeared on MSNBC this morning and participated in a discussion about Dick Cheney urging the Obama administration to release classified CIA reports re “enhanced interrogation.” Heil said it was Cheney’s prerogative to do so because it,
goes to the heart of this debate, and that is, does torture work and does that matter?
Whether torture works, or not, is precisely the spin Cheney hopes “journalists” like Heil will buy.
Fact is, per U.S. and international law — (Google it) — torture, as in the kind of “enhanced interrogation” the Bush administration used, and is trying to justify — was and is illegal – and has been for decades. The world community hashed that out long ago. The question is, did George and Dick violate those pre-existing laws. Period. Torture, whether it works, and “does that matter,” has nothing to do with it.
Entry filed under: George W. Bush and Co., Media - General, The "Liberal Media", WingNutO'Sphere. Tags: .
Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed