Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham gets an award for obstruction of justice, war criminals publish memoirs, and the use of torture continues to be open to debate...
last month when it was revealed
that an internal national security strategy memo for the Mitt Romney campaign advocated a
return to torture, hardly anyone blinked. In the years since the executive
order was signed, tolerance for torture seems resurgent. What happened in those
intervening years? Actually, what didn't happen is what matters. In the nearly
four years since Obama took office, no one has been held accountable for
authorizing the regime of torture and other ill-treatment...
