Finally, the ACLU suit got some of the Bush era torture memos out

NEW YORK – In response to litigation filed by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Justice Department today released four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture. The memos, produced by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), provided the legal framework for the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other illegal interrogation methods that violate domestic and international law.

Of course, as for the appointing a special prosecutor on that, they’ll have to wait.

Not only are the names of the CIA agents redacted but from Obama’s statement

In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution.

In good faith? “I was only following orders?” Why am I not surprised? Ah, I know.

Because the first speech I heard from Obama was not the mysterious anti-war speech there’s no record of anywhere but his first senate speech in which he said “It’s not relevant how this war started, let’s look to the future, not the past”

There was a reason the media enbraced him and Bush declared he deserved his silence. The same reason Nancy took impeachment off the table.

So, how does one torture in good faith?

Here’s more from Mr post-partisanship:

This is a time for reflection, not retribution.

and

That is why we must resist the forces that divide us, and instead come together on behalf of our common future.

Yeah, right. Tortured and tortured, kiss and make up and let’s all hold hands and sing “Feelings”

Well, I reflected already. I also read some of the gruesome details


As a result, I think there’s no good faith in torture and no coming together with criminals. But that’s just me. (Is it?)

on update, a better headline from the Independent UK

Obama pledges to protect CIA torture operatives

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