{"id":2706,"date":"2012-10-01T10:13:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2012-10-01T10:13:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:13:56","slug":"romney-advisers-bring-torture-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/10\/romney-advisers-bring-torture-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Advisers: Bring Torture Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The memo, which contains a number of factual errors and misleading statements, lays out two courses for a President Romney: Either immediately promise to rescind Obama&#8217;s executive order upon taking office, or initiate a &#8220;comprehensive review&#8221; of interrogation policy that ends with Romney rescinding Obama&#8217;s executive order. Though the outcome of the &#8220;review&#8221; is never in doubt, the memo states that the latter policy will make Romney appear &#8220;open-minded and empirically driven.&#8221; The memo does not appear to have a single author, but Savage reports that it was the product of an 18-person policy committee packed with Bush administration lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, the memo is somewhat agnostic in its belief about whether or not the so-called &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; actually work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/09\/romney-advisers-write-error-ridden-pro-torture-memo\" target=\"_blank\">Romney Advisers: Bring Torture Back | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The memo, which contains a number of factual errors and misleading statements, lays out two courses for a President Romney: Either immediately promise to rescind Obama&#8217;s executive order upon taking office, or initiate a &#8220;comprehensive review&#8221; of interrogation policy that ends with Romney rescinding Obama&#8217;s executive order. Though the outcome of the &#8220;review&#8221; is never&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}