Cross-posted at dkos.
Special intro for docudharma version
This diary is written for the dKos audience in hopes of achieving a wide readership. I had not intended to post it here, as it began as a fairly straightforward plagiarization of tahoebasha3’s diary, Overlooked by Media, Important Torture Testimony. I was frustrated that the issue had not received more attention, so I wanted to point it out again on dKos. In the process, the diary expanded to the point that I really want to post it here. And I do so confident in the knowledge that what all of us care about is stopping our government from torturing. Yet I don’t want to pull energy away from the great diary which inspired me to stay up most of the night creating this. If this post pulls attention away from where it is deserved, or if it is in any way offensive to do this, please let me know so I can delete it. Please save your comments pertinent to the original essay for that essay and only comment here with respect to what has been added.
dKos diary starts here
I have come to rely on dailyKos for almost all of my news. In fact, I’m downright smug about it. When someone offers up an item from the news, I usually say something along the lines of “I know. What really happened is . . .” When someone dismisses something I’ve read here as propaganda or wild speculation, I just sigh at their ignorance. I have learned that if I read something here which has gone unchallenged or uncorrected, then it is virtually always accurate. And I usually learn it somewhere between a day and six months before any non-Kossack. But yesterday the great orange glow was dimmer than it should have been.
Fortunately, I have recently begun spending more time at docudharma. It was there that I learned of important developments which I had not seen reported here. As a result of encouragement there, tahoebasha’s diary was cross-posted here on dailyKos, garnering little attention. In searching for it here, I discovered another important diary on the same issue. This is my attempt to support those diarists, and decent people everywhere, in calling for attention to these matters. Please read on.
Cross-posted at docudharma.