Megan McArdle can bite me.
“In related news, Porter Goss says that members of Congress who are indignantly claiming they knew nothing about waterboarding, etc. were fully briefed. This may explain the lukewarm enthusiasm for a Truth Commission. Question: how do the grassroots supporters of such a commission feel about it if it brings down the Democratic Party? The Democrats who signed off on this are still in power. The Bush administration will be long gone.”
The people directly responsible for the torture program should be forced to stand trial for war crimes/crimes against humanity. To this point, I’ve heard no one make the case that members of a specific political party should be immune from punishment.
