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Tom Gjelten's hair-splitting between rendition and so-called enhanced interrogation techniques exemplifies the lengths to which most establishment reporters will go to protect America's torture advocates. It is disingenuous in the extreme to suggest, as Gjelten does repeatedly, that proponents of rendition are not necessarily supportive of enhanced interrogation techniques, a term which millions of informed citizens recognize as Dick Cheney's favorite euphemism for torture.
Further, Gjelten's insistence on repeatedly mischaracterizing the objections of "liberal bloggers" to Brennan's prospective nomination reflects an agenda which exists as something quite distinct from professional journalism. The distortion was not the result of, as Tom conveniently described it, short-hand. No, this is something else entirely: Deliberately inaccurate reporting which plainly crosses the line separating slop from propaganda.
No doubt, Tom Gjelton's "reporting" of this story meets with the approval of the functionaries toiling at the Department of Homeland Security, which, much to my amazement, happens to be a sponsor of National Public Radio.
