The shame of 60 Minutes, how CBS hopes to profit from torture, and the people who love them
I winced throughout last night's horrifying edition of 60 Minutes, the geriatric television news magazine, in which correspondent Lesley Stahl granted a fawning interview to unconvicted war criminal Jose Rodriguez, one of the chief perpetrators of the Bush Adminstration's torture program after 9/11. Rodriguez's lack of repentance for his crimes is not exactly news, of course - nor is the general pro-torture tilt of 6…