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Monday, April 6, 2009

Cowardice in the Time of Torture

By Ray McGovern
April 5, 2009

(first published in Consortiumnews.com)

I used to take a certain pride by association with prominent Bronxites who have “made it.” Cancel that for Attorney General Eric Holder and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

You might think that as African-Americans, they would be especially outraged by torture, given what blacks have suffered at the hands of white torturers in this country and abroad.

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