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Oversight Denied

Andrew Sullivan has a question:

I wish these were not the facts. But they are. We now have a direct witness to the torture - and one who inflicted it - describing it as torture; we have all the legal precedents that do not begin to question whether waterboarding is torture; we know the president directly authorized it; we know the epidemic of torture that ensued. These are crimes, committed by the executive branch in full awareness of the law and with premeditation. They place the United States in violation of the Geneva Conventions. And the president bears the final responsibility.

I hate to ask the inevitable question: Who will now hold him criminally responsible?

A: Nobody

Hold Bush responsible? Come on. We've been over this before: every day, for the past 6 years.

Outrage Fatigue

I really don't understand why people are getting worked up about the CIA torture tape destruction. To me it seems like much ado about yet another example of BushCo malfeasance that will never amount to anything at all - just like all the others. We've been down this path many times now, and it always leads to the same thing: a couple of strongly-worded letters to Bush from a couple of Democratic Senators which will go unheeded. Maybe they'll have a hearing or two where the usual suspects will tell their typical lies. No laws will be passed to prevent this kind of thing from happening again (primarily because the Dems are complicit in all of it); nobody will be punished; nothing will happen.