Sen. Whitehouse floor speech = Torture Storyline False

[L. Coyote]

Can we embed playlists on DU political videos?
Very handy to have all three videos together.

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Sen. Whitehouse floor speech = Torture Storyline False
Jun 12, 2009 - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/12/741611/-Sen.-Whitehouse-floor-speechTorture-Storyline-False


Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island, presented a floor speech June 09, 2009.
The C-SPAN broadcast of the entire speech is finally on YouTube, thanks to CSJ.

The Storyline We Have Been Told About Torture Is False In Every Dimension!
So, I created an embeddable playlist of the three segments (starts at 7:22):

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diggit: http://digg.com/politics/Sen_Whitehouse_floor_speech_Torture_Storyline_False

[L. Coyote]

1. Classification and the “Descent Into Torture” = Secrecy Blog

Classification and the “Descent Into Torture”
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/06/classification_descent.html


The public has been significantly misled and misinformed concerning the practice of abusive interrogation by the U.S. government and the resulting damage to American political institutions, said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on the Senate floor yesterday.

“I am very sorry to say this–but there has been a campaign of falsehood about this whole sorry episode. It has disserved the American public. As I said earlier, facing up to the questions of our use of torture is hard enough. It is worse when people are misled and don’t know the whole truth and so can’t form an informed opinion and instead quarrel over irrelevancies and false premises. Much debunking of falsehood remains to be done but cannot be done now because the accurate and complete information is classified,” Sen. Whitehouse said.

“I want my colleagues and the American public to know that measured against the information I have been able to gain access to, the story line we have been led to believe–the story line about waterboarding we have been sold–is false in every one of its dimensions.”

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