{"id":14672,"date":"2014-12-22T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=14672"},"modified":"2014-12-22T23:12:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T04:12:58","slug":"but-one-name-is-missing-from-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/12\/but-one-name-is-missing-from-the-list.html","title":{"rendered":"But W.&#8217;s Name Is Missing From the List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This day should not pass without acknowledging the lead editorial in this morning&#8217;s New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/22\/opinion\/prosecute-torturers-and-their-bosses.html?ref=international&#038;_r=0\">Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses<\/a>. It points out, among other things, that <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any credible investigation should include former Vice President Dick Cheney; Mr. Cheney\u2019s chief of staff, David Addington; the former C.I.A. director George Tenet; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted what became known as the torture memos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also points out that &#8220;many more names could be considered, including Jose Rodriguez Jr., the C.I.A. official who ordered the destruction of [interrogation] videotapes; the psychologists who devised the torture regimen; and the C.I.A. employees who carried out that regimen.&#8221; But one name it doesn&#8217;t mention, which stumps me, is that of George W. Bush, aka the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/09\/tears_of_bullshit.html\">Bullshitter-in-Chief<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/01\/proud_of_his_steadfast.html\">President With His Head Up His Ass<\/a>, whose rep is lately being upholsterized as a warm and comfy noble warrior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day should not pass without acknowledging the lead editorial in this morning&#8217;s New York Times: Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses. It points out, among other things, that Any credible investigation should include former Vice President Dick Cheney; Mr. Cheney\u2019s chief of staff, David Addington; the former C.I.A. director George Tenet; and John Yoo and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-3OE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14696,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions\/14696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}