Here's an excerpt from a very powerful editorial in the New York Times calling for an independent criminal investigation into the torture program of the Bush / Cheney regime. The editorial doesn't spare the current Administration from shying away from its responsibilities.
"The question everyone will want answered, of course, is: Who should be held accountable? That will depend on what an investigation finds, and as hard as it is to imagine Mr. Obama having the political courage to order a new investigation, it is harder to imagine a criminal probe of the actions of a former president. But any credible investigation should include former Vice President Dick Cheney; Mr. Cheney’s chief of staff, David Addington; the former C.I.A. director George Tenet; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted what became known as the torture memos."The false claim that the torture resulted in actionable intelligence which averted attacks is the shield that Cheney et. al. have used and will continue to use to justify their actions, which should be examined in a court of law.
