Torture Commission

I don't particularly care about a Torture Commission, per se.  What I want is prosecutorial investigation.  But the langauge used by Reid and the Obama Administration in opposing the idea of a Torture Commission is irritating in that it strongly suggests we should just let bygones be bygones.  We don't do that for some crazy asshole who holds up a convenience store.  Why should we do it for likely war criminals? 

 

My sympathies are almost always slanted toward the defense--most of the people caught up in the criminal justice system are signficantly dysfunctional in one way or another.  But these people, these primae facie war criminals,  are highly intelligent, highly functional types who actually have more capacity to recognize culpability than your average dope dealer or convenience store heister. 

But the important thing is not so much the severity of the sanctions as it is the certainty. 
 
R.  
 
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