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  • HELEN THOMAS: Bush shares blame for torture tactics

    04/22/2009 4:47:36 PM PDT · by SmithL · 71 replies · 1,656+ views
    SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 4/22/9 | Helen Thomas
    Shock and shame is the only way to react to the latest revelations of the Bush administration's brutal interrogation of suspected terrorists. As the world now knows, torture techniques -- approved by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- were exposed in four memos released by the Justice Department under a court order obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. Much as President Obama wants to move on and to forget the unsavory history of the preceding administration, he has to face up to its ugly reality. The Bush administration's legal memos...