On the second day of Barack Obama’s presidency, he prohibited - TopicsExpress



          

On the second day of Barack Obama’s presidency, he prohibited most forms of physical torture. On the third, a CIA drone strike he authorized killed up to 11 civilians. Those two data points explain one of the most remarkable aspects of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s summary of its report on torture and also likely point to what should be the report’s larger lesson: the purported absence of presidential leadership behind either the torture or the drone programs.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:01:01 +0000

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