{"id":1805,"date":"2009-04-23T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2009-04-23T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T20:10:02","slug":"tortured-logic-wapos-pre-emtive-takedown-of-the-second-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Tortured Logic &#8211; WaPo&#039;s Pre-emtive Takedown Of The &quot;Second Wave&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tortured%20Logic%20-%20WaPo%26%23039%3Bs%20Pre-emtive%20Takedown%20Of%20The%20%26quot%3BSecond%20Wave%26quot%3B\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>&#8230;and it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/white-house-watch\/looking-backward\/the-unsupportable-defense-of-t.html\">back in January<\/a>. Their assessment &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1778\">same<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1782\">as mine<\/a> &#8211; there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much to corroborate the alleged seriousness of the &#8220;Second Wave&#8221; attacks. And remember, the pro-torture advocates themselves have established the &#8220;ticking time-bomb&#8221; scenario as the metric used to justify torturing detainees, so the pro-torture Republicans have a high burden of proof to live up to. <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/white-house-watch\/torture\/call-cheneys-bluff.html?wprss=white-house-watch\">Here is the latest<\/a> from the WaPo. As I said before, this is probably going flop even harder than the &#8220;WMD&#8217;s in Iraq&#8221; fiasco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tortured%20Logic%20-%20WaPo%26%23039%3Bs%20Pre-emtive%20Takedown%20Of%20The%20%26quot%3BSecond%20Wave%26quot%3B\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>&#8230;and it&#8217;s back in January. Their assessment &#8211; same as mine &#8211; there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much to corroborate the alleged seriousness of the &#8220;Second Wave&#8221; attacks. And remember, the pro-torture advocates themselves have established the &#8220;ticking time-bomb&#8221; scenario as the metric used to justify torturing detainees, so the pro-torture Republicans have a high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}