Monday, December 14, 2009

NBC: 'It's About Time Somebody' Prosecuted Bush Officials for Torture

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Playing out a liberal dream of vengeance, the season premiere of NBC's Law & Order delivered a plot in which the local Manhattan district attorney prosecuted a former Justice Department lawyer for “depraved indifference murder” based on the fact an Abu Ghraib prisoner died in the custody of soldiers who were following the lawyer's memo on the techniques which could be used on suspected terrorists.



An astonished “Executive Assistant DA Michael Cutter,” played by Linus Roache, asks:

“Jack, you want to prosecute a member of the Bush administration for assaulting suspected terrorists?” To which, a cocksure “McCoy” declares: “The word is torturing. And, yes, it's about time somebody did.”

Predictably, By the end of the episode, “McCoy” has added former Vice President Cheney and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to his indictment.

[What politics in TV?]

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