This is really frightening. The press discovers the president's office has lied, again, about its use of torture (see here for a timeline of torture related events and news). They've been found out by the New York Times in a n October, 3, 2007 article which notes they continued to authorize certain extreme "interrogation" measures.
"It's troubling," Tony Fratto said Friday. "I've had the awful responsibility to have to work with The New York Times and other news organizations on stories that involve the release of classified information. And I can tell you that every time I've dealt with any of these stories, I have felt that we have chipped away at the safety and security of America with the publication of this kind of information."
What should be even more bothersome to people here is Fratto's response to "Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations" By SCOTT SHANE, DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN. This is the stuff of fascist control of the press. The "war on terror" over and over again has had the same effect as the "war on drugs" - it doesn't work. We're no more safe and in fact the government's own reports have show us to be less safe.
The only "chipping away" going on here is on the rights and freedoms of the U.S.'s own citizens. They need to wake up and remove these bozos.
