Tout Torture, Get Promoted
Defending cruelty can be a career booster in Bush's administration.
By Robert Scheer
June 15, 2004
What a revelation to learn that the Justice Department lawyer who wrote the infamous memo in effect defending torture is now a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judge. It tells you all you need to know about the sort of conservative to whom George W. Bush is turning in his attempt to pack the federal courts.