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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:00 AM

NPR Ombudsman refuses interview regarding "torture"

A common affliction: a willingness to opine pedantically followed by a refusal to engage criticisms.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Tuesday, June 30, 2009 05:03 AM

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    They've been Stockholm Syndromed into submission and even admiration, and just can't bring themselves to admit that we have tortured, extensively, knowingly and repeatedly, even eagerly. They can't bring themselves to admit that we created a torture regime literally no different from that in the worst countries on earth. It's just too much for them to bear, so they resort to comforting euphemisms. Such a useless generation of hack journalists, we've not seen for generations.

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