Cursor's Media Patrol: June 24, 2005

Some extracts:

While a U.N. source said that U.S. officials have admitted that prisoners have been tortured at Guantanamo and elsewhere, Vice President Cheney was quoted as saying, "They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possibly want." Plus: 'Top five Gitmo falsehoods.'

In a Star Tribune profile of Dr. Steven Miles, who was denounced by the Pentagon for a Lancet article in which he accused U.S. Army doctors at Abu Ghraib of falsifying medical records, Miles says the medical system "became one of the professional arms of a torturing society."

Seven More Years? Karen Kwiatkowski writes that although developments in Iraq have left 'Neoconservatives Speechless,' members of Congress have not sat idly by: "there is a bipartisan move to repeal the 22nd Amendment."

Revisiting an April lecture in which Rove said, "Unless you have clear evidence to the contrary, commentators should answer arguments instead of impugning the motives of those with whom they disagree," David Corn looks at how well Rove took his own advice in an interview on "Hardball."