Comments on: Condi’s Deceptive Response to Stanford Student http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/05/condis-deceptive-response-to-stanford-student Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:11:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kathy http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/05/condis-deceptive-response-to-stanford-student/comment-page-1#comment-51483 Kathy Wed, 06 May 2009 18:31:18 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8450#comment-51483 Bryan, the interrogation techniques approved by the Bush admin for use by the CIA were *always* illegal. Bryan, the interrogation techniques approved by the Bush admin for use by the CIA were *always* illegal.

]]> By: Mike http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/05/condis-deceptive-response-to-stanford-student/comment-page-1#comment-51443 Mike Mon, 04 May 2009 19:43:29 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8450#comment-51443 The use of anonymous sources here is again troubling. However in many cases like this the sources are pretty obvious. The principal contributor and possible instigator of this piece was Condi Rice. She is in deep trouble at Stanford after her "lecture" of an inquiring student was caught on video and published on YouTube. Read the parts in the Times story about Condi's role and it is easy to see that she is concerned about that video and is trying to cast herself as the heroine. If you look at the info, almost all of it could have come from Rice. I can imagine that the 12 or so other former members of the Bush administration used by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane were simply "any comments on Rice's story?" sources. This is an apologist/rationalizing piece and it should have been clearly identified as such. Now the Times once again becomes a stenographer for the Bush administration. The use of anonymous sources here is again troubling. However in many cases like this the sources are pretty obvious.

The principal contributor and possible instigator of this piece was Condi Rice. She is in deep trouble at Stanford after her “lecture” of an inquiring student was caught on video and published on YouTube. Read the parts in the Times story about Condi’s role and it is easy to see that she is concerned about that video and is trying to cast herself as the heroine. If you look at the info, almost all of it could have come from Rice. I can imagine that the 12 or so other former members of the Bush administration used by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane were simply “any comments on Rice’s story?” sources.

This is an apologist/rationalizing piece and it should have been clearly identified as such. Now the Times once again becomes a stenographer for the Bush administration.

]]> By: Bryan http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/05/condis-deceptive-response-to-stanford-student/comment-page-1#comment-51442 Bryan Mon, 04 May 2009 18:51:43 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8450#comment-51442 Follow your own time line, Kathy, and think about it. If Congress passes a law making certain types of interrogations illegal, when do those types of interrogations become illegal under that law? Follow your own time line, Kathy, and think about it.

If Congress passes a law making certain types of interrogations illegal, when do those types of interrogations become illegal under that law?

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