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Reading The Times With Teju Cole - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/12/10/reading-the-times-with-teju-cole/?_r=0
Q. The big news today is the Senate’s scathing report on the C.I.A. and its torture program. It’s hard to know where to start here. General thoughts?
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A1 is screaming. It’s great that The Times has left behind the ugly euphemism of “enhanced interrogation” and generally now calls torture “#torture.”
But I was disappointed that the headline itself omitted that word. It’s a missed opportunity.
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What was most surprising piece about the report? The most outrageous detail reported?
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Perhaps the most outrageous detail might be one The Times omits: the case of #Gul_Rahman, who froze to death in a #torture chamber, who was a victim of mistaken identity and shouldn’t have been in custody at all, and for whose death no one was, and no one will be, held responsible. [Mr. Rahman was mentioned in this article.]
Imagine if Iran did this to an American! We’d exhaust the dictionary with our synonyms for condemnation.
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In its own editorial The Times called the C.I.A.’s conduct depravity beyond comprehension. Does that surprise you?
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No. The Times gets it right sometimes. The paper’s #fabrications and support for the Iraq war is a generational shame that shouldn’t be too quickly forgotten. It should haunt us for a long time. But the paper’s prestige means that when it comes out with a strongly worded statement in defense of human values, it is always welcome.
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