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If you look at the letters to the editor section of the NY Times this morning, there is unanimous response to the insipid Charles Fried op ed of the other day suggesting the usual -- that it would be damaging to go after the torturers. What is sickening is that Fried was once Solicitor General of the US and now teaches CONSTITUTIONAL LAW at Harvard Law School. The good thing is that the response in the letters was so powerfully and intelligently for prosecution. The Times tries to sample letters according to the wieght of what they receive, so this is very good.
If Glenn's argument that pressure is needed is to be followed, we need to press like mad on this. Today is important because of the confirmation hearings on Eric Holder. WIll any Senator ask him if he intends to uphold the law? Or will the critical questions be those of the hypocritical and cowardly senior Senator from Pennsylvania, concerning Holder's lack of independence from Bill Clinton? (Yes, Arlen Specter, he who would denounce the Bush Justice department, and then vote for everything they desired.) It will be interesting to watch.
