The Bush administration was very clever at distorting the debate about what constitutes torture. From Nancy Pelosi's explosive interview aired last night on the Rachel Maddow Show it appears that she and other ranking Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee were presented with the government's "theoretical" use of sleep deprivation and "simulated" waterboarding merely as a ruse to blur the lines of what was legal. In fact, as we know from several disturbing reports between 2004 and 2008, far worse was already being done to Iraqi prisoners and Guantanamo detainees in our name.
Despite President Obama's clear reluctance to seek indictments at least two Senators in Congress are not so willing to overlook obvious war crimes. This is indeed "no small thing". Let the hearings begin.
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