BR Footnote » waterboarding http://brfootnote.theclawmagazine.com Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:15:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Condoleezza Rice defends “enhanced interrogation” to Stanford students http://brfootnote.theclawmagazine.com/2009/04/29/condoleezza-rice-defends-enhanced-interrogation-to-stanford-students/ http://brfootnote.theclawmagazine.com/2009/04/29/condoleezza-rice-defends-enhanced-interrogation-to-stanford-students/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:21:22 +0000 Michael Wilkerson http://brfootnote.theclawmagazine.com/?p=159 I already posted this over at The Stanford Review’s blog, where I’ve been guest blogging as a token moderate/left-leaner.

You can check out more of my thoughts at the Review, but here are some questions:

  1. How was this recording allowed? Rice’s people are usually pretty strict about such things.
  2. If this video makes ends up getting a lot of attention–I think it could go either way as there is no single damning sentence or Fox News-worthy clip–will Rice ever do another dorm talk at Stanford?
  3. Turning to substance, does 9/11, or preventing another 9/11, really change everything, as Rice asserts? Should public panic and demands for safety make it ok to undermine the moral and legal bases of our government?
  4. Was the “enhanced interrogation” legal? Rice seems to think so, but much of the furor over memos released argues that it was not.

Take it away folks.

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