Torture anyone?

There is a new haunt for Spencer Ackerman, who used to write for TPM muckraker. Its called The Washington Independent. He has a very good post up this morning about Torture and BushCo..two words that sadly go together like hide and seek. A small blurb from his writeup entitled “CIA Largely in the Dark on Interrogation Tactics“:

Col. Steve Kleinman, a U.S. Air Force Reserve interrogator, 50, who had served in Panama and both Iraq wars, was one of the speakers that fall day. In a conversation earlier this month, Kleinman said he was horrified by America’s turn to what Dick Cheney has called “the dark side” in the war on terrorism: indefinite detention in the name of national security, torture in the name of intelligence collection. And so he fought against it. Kleinman joined an effort, sponsored by the Intelligence Science Board—an interagency intelligence-advisory panel—to get the intelligence community to finally renounce torture. His speech at Fort Hunt was a subtle rebuke of the use of torture, comparing the war on terrorism to an earlier era, when interrogators shunned brutality.

Suddenly, at Fort Hunt that October day, a veteran approached Kleinman. “I never laid a hand on one of my prisoners,” the older man said. “That allowed me to do my job and retain my humanity.” Kleinman was moved. “I thought, when’s the last time I heard an interrogator concerned about that?” he recalled.

I would like to suggest you visit his new spot and bookmark it..I think we will see good things from Mr. Ackerman that will be well worth our time.