Group Thinkers Miss An Original on Truth Commission
It’s always interesting to watch Beltway insiderism at work, so you
might want to take a look at this blog item referencing this short piece on the Washington Note Web
site
which references this video
discussion, all dealing with
the notion of a truth commission to look into apparent human rights
violations during the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on
terror.
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To get a fuller look at the possibility of a truth commission, take a look at my column on the subject, which hit the Miller-McCune Web site four days go. Or pop over to “Restoring Moral Authority: Ending Torture, Secret Detention, and the Prison at Guantanamo Bay” in “Terrorism: What the Next President Will Face,” the latest issue of
the ANNALS of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. The
article — by Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for
Human Rights Watch — is as succinct, stirring and nuanced an argument
for a truth commission as I can imagine. Funny how Washington insiders
somehow forgot to mention him or his article.
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Written By:John Mecklin
John Mecklin is the editor-in-chief of Miller-McCune. Over the last 15 years, he's also been: the editor of High Country News, a nationally acclaimed magazine that reports on the American West; the consulting executive editor for the launch of Key West, a city/regional magazine; and the top editor for award-winning newsweeklies in San Francisco and Phoenix that specialized in narrative journalism. In an earlier incarnation, he was an investigative reporter at the Houston Post and covered the Persian Gulf War from Saudi Arabia and Iraq for the paper. His writing has won national acclaim; writers working at his direction have won a panoply of major journalism honors, including the George Polk Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors certificate, the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism and the Sidney Hillman Award for reporting on social justice issues. Mecklin holds a master's in public administration degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor's in psychology from Indiana University.
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