One wonders what sort of mental makeup the interrogator should have to quietly and in a matter-of-fact manner (possibly with  a Cuban cigar dangling from  his mouth) sit in his chair and supervise the prisoner being water-boarded 183 times and undergoing death throes 183 times.  What is the difference between the acts of these interrogators and  those of the notorious Nazi concentration camp guards who are being hounded  from their deathbeds to be  brought to justice  even after six decades, day in day out?

Do the ends always justify the means?

Greg Sargent....

All this tourture blathering is pure hystrionics and worthless.

We roughed up several key Al Queda operatives post 9/11.  

Now that republicans are out of power this is all that's left to get the partisan blood boiling.  We're still in Iraq, we're upping the troops in Afghanistan so torture is all that remains to get the anti-war left all in a lather.

The truth is however that Bush with the blessing of congress did exactly what the American people asked him to do post 9/11 to prevent another attack.

Guess what?  It worked.  Now that we have the convienience of 20/20 hindsight and nothing else to complain about (because we dare not admit that obama is Bush Light) some on the left would like to re-write history and ignore the fact that many D's in congress knew exactly what was going on and ignore the fact that if we'd know in 2002 exactly what was going on no one would have cared.

All these "truth" commisions will do is show the moderates in this country just how unserious the left takes the war on terror and expose how all of government knew what was going on and the left will then have to shut down this witch hunt unless they have the country learn that this is simple political grandstanding.  

Soon Americans will want to know why a democratic controlled government is wasting gov't time and resources investigating something many of their own knew about while the economy continues to go in the tank.