Are we going to need a South Africa-style truth commission to find the facts and clear the air after Bush-era war crimes? To me it more and more looks like that will be the case:
But I'm basically pessimistic that anyone will be held accountable for anything at all. The relevance precedent is probably Iran-Contra where the guilty parties just . . . came back into government a bit later and anyone who mentioned that they were crooks was dismissed as shrill. I recall that during the telecom immunity fight the Washington Post specifically denounced immunity opponents on the grounds that they were interested in "using the tools of discovery to dislodge information about what the administration actually did." Can't have people know what happened!


John Ashcroft testifies that he does not think waterboarding is torture. I think this sums up the moral bankruptcy of the Bush administration pretty well. A method that is considered torture throughout the world and has actually been prosecuted as a war crime in the past is no longer torture? Disgusting.
Posted by LFC | July 18, 2008 3:50 PM