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--A NO ADMITTANCE notice for those who have not read at least portions of:
1 - The four Department of Justice memoranda on torture [[http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/olc_memos.html ]], which President Obama decided to bear the political cost of releasing on April 16; and
2 - The CIA Inspector General's � ���"Special Review� �� � of May 7, 2004 [[click here ]] released, pursuant to an ACLU lawsuit, on August 24, 2009. (Yes, that's a wait of more than five years. Pay no heed to the heavy redaction. There is quite enough readable prose to � ���"sicken� �� � you.)
Fair labeling: do not read these before bedtime. And think a bit on what Obama and Holder may be expecting of us at this point. How often has President Obama told us � ���"make me do� �� � the right thing? Are we unable to imagine effective ways to do that?
--Those qualifying for admittance can expect a challenge to find effective ways to ensure that the history books read by our children and grandchildren will record that:
� ��"The Bush/Cheney chapter on torture as an immoral aberration in the life of our country, and
� ��"At least some of us refused to act as � ���"silent Germans.� �� �
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