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"The notion that there was no public outrage after the memos is hard to swallow: Certainly in the pages of Salon, and throughout the entire liberal blogosphere, there was plenty of clamor and outrage. I personally wasted my breath multiple times on MSNBC and CNN, debating torture with the likes of G. Gordon Liddy, David Frum and Liz Cheney."
It's an interesting question: where is the outrage, when there is some, seen or heard by those who need to see or hear it?
As you point out, Joan, the public outrage, what there was of it, was soon countered (head off at the pass) by legions of MSM talking heads arguing that "it wasn't really torture" or "it was necessary to save lives from further acts of terrorism" (paraphrasing here). Cue Dick Cheney's public speaking tour. And Rahm's assertion that there would be no prosecutions did its part to make it seem that expressions of outrage would be pointless.
It's hard to accept that real public outrage could be so easily defeated. Maybe there should be a website, outrage.org or something like that, that collects the outrage and sends it to the people who need to hear it. Just a thought.
Thanks for your post, Joan. Keep up the good work.
