Greenwald has another excellent post up, this one on a U.S. senate committee hearing with the new attorney general, Michael Mukasey.
The Senators and Mukasey spoke all day long about torture with such dispassion that one would have thought it was nothing more than the latest bureaucratic HUD program. They don't even use the euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" any more. That phrase has been so normalized that they now all know and use an abbreviation for it -- "EIT." So Senators ask questions about when "EITs" can be used and the Attorney General outlines the elusive formula he applies to determine its legality and all controversy, all passion, all intensity is completely drained out of the discussion in the U.S. Senate of our torture policies. "Torture" is now an EIT Unit.
So this is where it's heading, isn't it. Now euphemisms become acronyms of euphemisms. But then again, it's Super Bowl week and I hate to be downer. It's not like you or anyone you know is getting tortured or anything like that and it should be a good game. I like the Patriots to cover.
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