We need more openness

We need more openness. Leaders of the free world need to admit that they consort with torturers for other political ends, but they need to both make public what those other political ends are (so that they can be judged as being worth the costs) as well as allowing condemnation of those human rights abuses. This would not be hypocritical. Hypocrisy is when you say one thing and do another, not when you justify what you are doing in terms of a tricky balancing act. Openness, openness.

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