“Gunning for Gonzales,”National Review Online, January 4, 2005, which whitewashes Alberto Gonzales by selective quotation. TheNROarticle insinuates that Gonzales argued against such things as commissary privileges, when in fact he arguedfortorture, as the full government memos make abundantly clear....
It should be routine that data, memos and ideas are shared – skipping hierarchies – and aren’t vetted by all in the chain of command. This makes people more responsible for what they are doing, improves the dissemination of new information and new ideas, and speeds things up overall. In...