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Teaching the Candidates about US War Policy
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  The Franklin Pierce Law School, in conjunction with the New York based organization Human Rights First, is offering a class of sorts for Presidential candidates. Dean John Hutson has organized a forum to inform those who would be President about current U .S. detention and interrogation policies. He tells NHPR's Mark Bevis this topic has many ramifications for the present and the future in terms of how this country fights its wars.
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I found Bevis' tone during the interview to be offensive. I'm sure he was trying to come across as a tough, probing interviewer, but instead, as far as I'm concerned, seemed like just another practitioner of 'he said, she said' journalism. Mr. Bevis - the practices 'some say' are necessary 'since the world changed on 9/11' were used by luminaries like Stalin (secret prisons), and Pol Pot (waterboarding). To legitimize the efforts of the torture apologists - to help them move the frame by suggesting that the efforts of Yoo, et al. to toss the Geneva Conventions over the side are anything but a threat to this country is a real disservice to your listeners.