HOLD TORTURE CONSPIRATORS ACCOUNTABLE

David Broder writing in today's The Washington Post gives us more of the vacuous arguments of the Washinton establishment against holding those who conspired to devise a policy of torture responsible. Broder writes:

"The memos on torture represented a deliberate, and internally well-debated, policy decision, made in the proper places -- the White House, the intelligence agencies and the Justice Department -- by the proper officials.

"One administration later, a different group of individuals occupying the same offices has -- thankfully -- made the opposite decision. Do they now go back and investigate or indict their predecessors?

"That way, inevitably, lies endless political warfare. It would set the precedent for turning all future policy disagreements into political or criminal vendettas. That way lies untold bitterness -- and injustice."

How can anyone connected with Bush, even Broder, argue that the torture policy was "deliberate, and internally well-debated, policy decision, made in the proper places -- the White House, the intelligence agencies and the Justice Department -- by the proper officials"?

This is so ludicrous. The illegal inhumane policy was devised behind the closed doors of Dick Cheney in consultation with his henchman David Addington, and then dictated to the White House and the CIA.

Let's put these criminals on trial and let the American people hear all the sordid happenings and schemes.

Let's release all the memos and see the true picture of the Bush/Cheney criminal enterprise. As for Yoo, Bybee, Bradbury et al, let's find out how they fit their "legal" arguments around the policy.

Shame on Broder for supporting concealment of the truth about CIA torture.