Now You See It, Now You Don’t (Open Thread)
By SusanUnPC on May 18, 2007 at 11:10 AM in Current Affairs
Hear no evil, see no evil: “Media Matters notes, ‘ABC and CBS still have not reported — on either their evening news or morning news broadcasts — former deputy attorney general James B. Comey’s account of what NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams May 15 called a rare glimpse of a high-level, late-night power struggle over the National Security Agency’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program’.”
“The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found”: “With a couple of keystrokes, you too can read the hidden history of the Coalition Provisional Authority, America’s late, unlamented occupation government in Iraq.” Adds Salon‘s editor on the big find by political scientist Pete Moore and his son, “The document discussed in this story can be viewed here, both with and without its hidden text” (including “the kind of sensitive, security-related documents that were never meant to be available to the public”).
P.S. Last weekend, I taped (DVR’d) a BookTV (C-Span2) program featuring renowned psychology professor Philip Zimbardo on his latest book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.
Wednesday, I got around to watching the always-fascinating Zimbardo. Nothing prepared me for seeing the actual, uncensored photographs of detainees at Abu Ghraib.
Zimbardo also gives a visual history of his famous prison experiment at Stanford University, and its relevance to detainee treatment in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo. Zimbardo served as a consultant to the defense for one or more soldiers involved in the Abu Ghraib scandal, and thereby got access to many military documents on the prison and the staff.
Inexplicably (or not), BookTV.org hasn’t provided the video for online viewing. But, you can videotape or DVR/Tivo the show on Monday morning at 1:30 am ET.
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