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To: JohnM who wrote (16460)	4/10/2006 9:43:34 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 541403

So far it looks like putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5. The story of Abu Ghraib was basically well done, but the extrapolation that an administration that had a policy of coercive interrogation was actually behind the worst excesses at Abu Ghraib have been laid to rest, in my opinion, by the prosecutions of the persons involved. The defense attorneys have tried to prove it and failed. There was another New Yorker story, not by Hersh, that I liked a lot, about a senior Navy attorney who resigned over coercive interrogation. Same age as me. Like me, one of his earliest memories is of his mother weeping over radio broadcasts from the participants in the Hungarian uprising begging for assistance. Like me, it was one of the formative experiences in his decision to become a lawyer. I was even offered a job by the Navy once but they wanted me to do government contracts and I thought that would be boring. I'd been kicking myself in the ass for that ever since. Until I read that story.