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The bipartisan co-chairmen all but accuse the White House of committing serious felonies in destroying the CIA videos.
  • John Podhoretz -versus- the "fetishists"

    http://commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/1553

    Is Jose Rodriguez a Hero?
    John Podhoretz - 12.11.2007

    [...] One will doubtless wait in vain to see the anti-waterboarding fetishists struggle in the reverse — struggle with the revelation that the use of the technique actually did interrupt Al Qaeda terror plots and how that calls into question the dogmatic certainty of their view. The decision Rodriguez made — not to give ammunition to those who might use leaked copies of tapes as anti-American propaganda and to protect those Americans whose faces appeared on those tapes — appears to have been, at least in the early reckoning, a genuinely principled and patriotic act. If he is forced to create a defense fund to help pay his legal bills, I’ll be the first to send in a check.

    - - John Podhoretz