Robert L. Terrell Blog

The firestorm of political controversy engendered by President Obama’s release of four Bush administration torture memos is not likely to subside any time soon. Moreover, there is every good reason to assume that the intensity of debate about torture, and other abuses commonly perpetrated abroad in numerous instances by U.S. personnel during the Bush era, will increase with the Obama administration’s upcoming release of incriminating photograph of some of those abuses.

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These are portentous times for the United States. There are many things to be grateful for, including the current ascendancy of mainstream liberal politics in the nation’s capitol.  The stock market is slowly edging upwards, and panic about the possibility of total financial collapse appears to be subsiding.      

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