{"id":10978,"date":"2014-12-09T19:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10978"},"modified":"2014-12-09T21:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T05:07:02","slug":"tom-tomorrows-yesteryear-coverage-of-todays-us-senate-report-on-bush-era-cia-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10978","title":{"rendered":"Tom Tomorrow’s Yesteryear Coverage of Today’s U.S. Senate Report on Bush-Era CIA Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s difficult to know where Rightwingers are now when it comes to the release of today’s remarkable<\/a>, horrifying<\/a>, redacted 528-page executive summary [PDF]<\/a> of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,000-page report on Bush-era CIA torture.<\/p>\n

“Torture never happened!,” they used to say. Then, “Okay, it happened, but it wasn’t torture!” Then, “Okay, torture happened, but it was necessary!” Now, “This report is just meant as a distraction<\/a> from America’s real problem: ObamaCare!”<\/p>\n

You get the idea. So did legendary syndicated cartoonist and blogger Tom Tomorrow<\/a> (aka<\/i> Dan Perkins), and he’s been covering it with brilliant, dead-on satire for years<\/i>. With the release of the Senate report, almost a decade in the making, we’re posting a few very-much-related Tom Tomorrow toons from over the years below, as self-selected by Perkins on Twitter today.<\/p>\n

“It’s not as if we’ve learned nothing<\/i> in ten years,” he tweeted<\/a>. “In a 2004 cartoon, I still had to explain what ‘waterboarding’ was.”<\/p>\n

And, as he also made clear<\/a>, none of what we are learning today is ultimately a surprise. “Presumably if the cartoonists knew about it, the White House did as well.”<\/p>\n

They did indeed, as a glance at these toons from over the years makes clear yet again…<\/p>\n

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2005<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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2006<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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2009<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s difficult to know where Rightwingers are now when it comes to the release of today’s remarkable, horrifying, redacted 528-page executive summary [PDF] of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,000-page report on Bush-era CIA torture. “Torture never happened!,” they used to say. Then, “Okay, it happened, but it wasn’t torture!” Then, “Okay, torture happened, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,192,135,239,405,55,24,107,126,60,366,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66","category-accountability","category-afghanistan","category-barack-obama","category-bush-legacy","category-cia","category-iraq-war","category-national-security","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-toons","category-torture","category-war-on-terror","bb-type-toon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}