Maybe you can make a case that low-level torturers shouldn't be charged - - though it would seem that the Nuremberg precedents say otherwise - - but the people at the top who issued the orders and crafted the twisted legal protections for the operatives and hundreds of water-boarding episodes absolutely need to be brought to justice.
The first step is an independent commission, with subpeona power.
Yawn.
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I think there will be a little more to the official and public reponse than that.
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