Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "know". I do tend to immerse myself in this and related subjects a
lot!
But my reasoning for this assumption is just what I'm talking about in my last post. As it goes in the media, so it goes in public policy. The media is picking up on torture stories. Nothing new about the stories, except that they're getting ink.
So now we've got a congressman from the left coast who has called very vocally for investigation into the systematic torture of children for the purpose of reform. The former AG (aka Scary John) tried to blow him off, but he's gone now. So now comes Alberto Gonzales fresh from a confirmation nightmare scandal about his advice to the White House and Pentagon on some of these same methods of torture being used against suspected terrorists. Americans are talking about it. Europeans are talking about it. Asians and Mediteranians are all making ongoing mention of some of these same kinds of torture. You can hardly pick up a newspaper or watch a news broadcast without catching some allusion to the story. This has been going on for
months now. It's hasn't blown over. This is bigger than the infamous blue dress!
It must be
awfully embarrasing to Mr. Gonzales, don't you think? So what's a political animal do when embarrassed? Same thing a drunk does when he joins AA; they become evangelically, militantly and vocally opposed to the embarrasing behavior.
What do YOU think Gonzales is going to do w/ this?
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
--Thomas Paine
