Blog Round Up on Gitmo, Terror Trials

March 12, 2010  |  Posted by Danielle Belton

Here's a wrap of the best news of the week being passed around on the blogs, Twitter and Facebook, starting off with this zinger of a rebuke to Liz Cheney from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

Also in the news --

Karl Rove is totally keen about water-boarding. Proud even.

"I'm proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots such as flying airplanes into Heathrow and into London, bringing down aircraft over the Pacific, flying an airplane into the tallest building in Los Angeles and other plots."

He's (surprise, surprise) promoting a new book that defends the Bush-Cheney torture policies among other disasters.

Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld and Joshua Dratel write how now is NOT the time to be experimenting with unproven military commissions. Especially when we have a U.S. criminal court system that has tried terrorists and works.

Gawker takes a humorous look at why we shouldn't be listening to "President" Lindsey Graham. (Something about him NOT being President and having TERRIBLE ideas about national security.)

And even Bush era attorneys, including former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, think Liz Cheney is eleventy billion kinds of wrong.

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