NY Times / Boston Globe columnist JEFF JACOBY... PIMPS TORTURE, defends Bush Administration

David Swanson and ConsortiumNews.com add YET ANOTHER NEW YORK TIMES addition to our hall of "news" INFAMY & "journalistic" TREACHERY:

... Boston Globe (wholly owned by Arthur Sulzberger's New York Times) - caught DEFENDING the Bush administration's rationals for torture.
WHERE? Was Mr. Jacoby and HIS SUPPORT FOR TORRTURE when the Bush administration, and the PAUL WOLFWOWITZ dominated Department of Defense, ran those cowardly, Stalinesque, Naziesque KANGAROO COURT _SHOW TRIALS_ for FEMALE PRIVATES accused ONLY of "abuse" (Sabrina Samson, Lyndie England, a few of the low-level NCOs & sergeants above them)- WHILE Pres. Bush & Vice President Cheney OPENLY BRAGGED ABOUT and asserted their "RIGHT" to TORTURE PRISONERS, TO DEATH, at THEIR sole discretion, with NO OVERSIGHT to anyone?

ConsortiumNews.com's "editor's note" to David Swanson's article captures the journalistic treachery of Jacoby's Boston Globe commentary better than anything we can write:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/042309a.html
Editor’s Note: One of the more annoying traits of modern American columnists is their proclivity to thunder about human rights abuses by leaders who lack much power – think Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez – while finding clever excuses to sympathize with what American leaders do, particularly powerful Republican ones.

Now, from that school of careerist punditry comes the Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby standing up for the Bush administration over its torture memos and lambasting President Bush’s critics, as David Swanson notes in this guest essay:

David Swanson's column,
"Torture-DEFENDING Pundits"
By David Swanson
April 23, 2009
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/042309a.html

While much of elite U.S. punditry is backing away from torture, Jeff Jacoby is claiming to have opposed it but to now find it excusable.
His Boston Globe column takes a very "balanced" approach. He both opposes torture under all circumstances AND excuses it given the current circumstances...
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