The Public Interest

Above: from the View this morning. The former governor of Minnesota makes the case against torture plain and simple, and I agree with every word he utters in this clip.

Elisabeth Hasselback uses a common right wing meme these days - hoping to silence torture critics on the left by bringing up Pelosi.

But as Matthew Yglesias points out, this has the exact opposite effect of what was intended:

“What conservatives are missing here is that this is a fight they were winning before they started gunning for Pelosi. Their best ally in this fight was Barack Obama, whose desire to “move forward” rather than focusing on the past had been the subject of much consternation. Had conservatives simply reached out to grab the hand that was being extended to them, they could have gotten what they wanted. But in their zeal to score a tactical win, the right has made a truth commission more likely not less likely.”

One more time: if Pelosi or any other Democrat was proven to be complicit in our illegal policy of torturing terrorist suspects, they need to be brought to justice.

I’m continually surprised at those who see this as a left-vs-right issue and not an American one.

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