{"id":179336,"date":"2018-03-18T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/18\/quote-of-the-day-39\/"},"modified":"2018-03-18T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T23:35:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/18\/quote-of-the-day-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The problem isn&#8217;t simply that these people weren&#8217;t prosecuted (though they should have been). It&#8217;s that they weren&#8217;t even shamed enough to think that maybe the public spotlight wasn&#8217;t the best thing for them. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2018\/03\/phew.html\">Duncan &#8220;Atrios&#8221; Black<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Atrios is talking about the torturers, like Gina Haspel, who were emboldened by Obama&#8217;s refusal to persecute even the worst of them.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s decision to, &#8220;Look forward, not back,&#8221; on torture did not put the chapter behind us, because, not only did it not put torture behind us, it <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Endorsed<\/span><\/b> torture and torturers.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama, and his AG at the time, Eric &#8220;Place&#8221; Holder are not stupid people, and they had to know that a failure to prosecute constituted and endorsement of torture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem isn&#8217;t simply that these people weren&#8217;t prosecuted (though they should have been). It&#8217;s that they weren&#8217;t even shamed enough to think that maybe the public spotlight wasn&#8217;t the best thing for them. \u2014Duncan &#8220;Atrios&#8221; Black Atrios is talking about the torturers, like Gina Haspel, who were emboldened by Obama&#8217;s refusal to persecute even &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[491,370,369,364,481,372],"class_list":["post-179336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barack-obama","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-espionage","tag-evil","tag-intelligence","tag-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}