President Carter Calls for Torture Truth Commission

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http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/01/carter-release-abuse-photos/

Raw Story
By David Edwards and Stephen Webster
June 1, 2009

Former President Jimmy Carter, speaking to CNN on Monday, said he disagrees with President Barack Obama’s decision to withhold photos of prisoner abuse. He added that Obama appears to be resolved against resurrecting the past by punishing those in the Bush administration guilty of what of what Carter himself considers "crimes against our Constitution"

"I respect what his decisions are," he told CNN’s Campbell Brown. "I don’t have the responsibility to deal with the consequences. But I think that most of his supporters were hoping he would be more open in the revelation of what we’ve done in the past.

"But, ah, he’s made a decision with which I really can’t contend, that he doesn’t want to resurrect the past. He doesn’t want to punish those that are guilty of perpetrating what I consider crimes against our own laws and against our constitution."

Carter added that while releasing the images may cause "further animosity" toward the United States, the public knowledge that the photos simply exist already serves that cause, whereas instead of seeing them for what they are, the imagination can tend to fill in its own details.

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1. The Whole Senate Disagrees with President Carter

Passed last Friday:

The Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8444483&mesg_id=8444483

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/01/photos/index.html

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3. We live in a very sick Nation.

A simple change of Presidents from far-right pig to center-right niceguy is clearly not going to stop our rapid decline. The sickness is ingrained so deep in our politics and our culture that even belief in the most common-sense human dignities has become fringe. Very hard to maintain any hopefulness about our country when I see news like that.

edit: grammar

[solstice]

4. ITA. I now feel the same way when I read the news about Obama

that I did when I read it about Bush.

SICK.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

2. Bless him. n/t