<![CDATA[The Torturous Logic of The New York Times]]>

1.0 link 90652 <![CDATA[The Torturous Logic of The New York Times]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-cooper/the-torturous-logic-of-th_b_90652.html With President Bush's veto this weekend of a bill to outlaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, torture now becomes officially codified U.S. policy. But you'd never know it from the reading The New York Times.

At least, not the news pages. Yes, there was a prominent Times story this Sunday on the veto written by Washington-based reporter Steven Lee Meyers. But the only suggestion in the piece that we're actually talking about torture is the painful and intellectually insulting acrobatics...

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