Via Glenn Greenwald:
"On September 14, 2001 -- three days after the 9/11 attack, while bodies still lay underneath the simmering rubble in lower Manhattan.
Representative Barbara Lee delivered one of the wisest and bravest speeches in the history of the House, explaining her lone vote against the AUMF.
For that simple attempt to urge restraint and deliberation, Lee was vilified as an anti-American who harbored sympathy for the terrorist attackers. Yet 20 years later, it's hard to deny it was actually brave prescience, and that voices of restraint at times of trauma are vital."
Listen:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1347169393873203200
"On September 14, 2001 -- three days after the 9/11 attack, while bodies still lay underneath the simmering rubble in lower Manhattan.
Representative Barbara Lee delivered one of the wisest and bravest speeches in the history of the House, explaining her lone vote against the AUMF.
For that simple attempt to urge restraint and deliberation, Lee was vilified as an anti-American who harbored sympathy for the terrorist attackers. Yet 20 years later, it's hard to deny it was actually brave prescience, and that voices of restraint at times of trauma are vital."
Listen:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1347169393873203200