Public Opinion Favors Torture Investigation

Despite the overwhelming calls from establishment journalists and from the partisan pundits who cable news networks routinely provide forums to on their evening programs who assert that we should look to the future and forget the past, the American public favors investigations into the torture issue during the Bush administration, according to Democracy Now! See this also from Gallup (the American public seems to be overwhelmingly a part of the "far left").

That's good news for a law abiding citizenry. Now only if our elites would favor such a strategy. Especially when torture has been shown to be ineffective or even harmful to our nation. This Miami Herald report blind sides Dick Cheney, Robert Spencer, and other advocates for torture, and shows how ideological and short sighted their vision is.

The CIA inspector general in 2004 found no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any ''specific imminent attacks,'' according to recently declassified Justice Department memos.

That undercuts assertions by former Vice President Dick Cheney and other former Bush administration officials that the use of harsh interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, which is widely considered torture, was justified because it headed off terrorist attacks.

Spencer befuddles me sometimes. He advocates for so many liberal ideals (women's rights, gay rights), yet he then can turn around and justify torture like it's no big deal.