Historical Amnesia and the Destruction of the Senate Torture Report

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<p>‘Whe Wi sto Smith thi ks he has fi ally ma e co tact with the ergro moveme t he has always hope existe , i George Orwell’s 1984, he ri ks a toast, ot to the hope -for f t re, b t to the past, beca se “he who co trols the past co trols the f t re.”</p>
<p>With the “eras re of the past,” c rre t eve ts ca look like a omalies a acci e ts whe strippe of the historical co text that belies the patter s that reveal the possibility of i te t a g ilt.</p>
<p>The rece t revelatio that the CIA “mistake ly” elete its copy of the Se ate report o ete tio a tort re, a the , i a “i a verte t” error, elete the har isk back p, may be a j st s ch a case. The whiski g of the report ow the memory hole co l be see as a “i a verte t,” tho gh i cre ible, mistake if ot for the challe ge pose by recoveri g a little history from the memory hole. Former Chi ese Premier Cho E -lai o ce remarke that “O e of the elightf l thi gs abo t America s is that they have absol tely o historical memory.”‘</p>
<p><a href="http://origi al.a tiwar.com/te _s i er/2016/05/18/historical-am esia- estr ctio -se ate-tort re-report/" target="_bla k">Rea more: Historical Am esia a the Destr ctio of the Se ate Tort re Report</a></p>