Hey New York Times - Can You Help Out a War Criminal?

Bush administration officials have, for some time now, hidden behind the argument that everything they did by way of "enhanced interrogations" was completely legal and had been vetted by a team of independent and experienced government lawyers in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. They have implicitly denied bringing any political pressure to bear on justice department lawyers to distort the legal analysis or get the law they wanted.

I dare my readers to read these three recently leaked emails from the Office of Legtal Counsel(they are pretty short) and conclude, as the New York Times concluded, that all senior justice department lawyers agreed that the enhanced techniques were legal, or conclude that White House officials exerted no improper influence to get the opinions that it wanted.

In fact, once you've read the emails, read this article that appeared in the New York Times last Saturday. It depicts these emails as vindicating the Bush administration. Then read this ficticious hypothetical New York times article that might have been written about the email.

Is there any doubt that the New York Times has become complicit in hiding war crimes and excusing war criminals.

And if the person who leaked these memos did so to help Bush administration officials, then the political right has some genuinely clueless people in its ranks.

Joe H.