I just ran across this:

Spanish prosecutors oppose Guantanamo torture probe,/b>

1 hour ago

MADRID (AFP) — Spain's attorney general on Thursday recommended against an investigating magistrate going ahead with a probe of six former US officials over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.

Candido Conde Pumpido justified the move on the grounds that six former Bush administration officials cited in the court complaint, reportedly including former US attorney general Alberto Gonzales, did not physically carry out the torture acts which allegedly took place.

Garzon had asked the attorney general's office for its opinion on the case, although he is not bound by it.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5imlmVHymrHEJehVixijRHw5WDTSQ

Holder also stressed that intelligence community officials who acted reasonably and relied in good faith on authoritative legal advice from the Justice Department that their conduct was lawful, and conformed their conduct to that advice, would not face federal prosecutions for that conduct.

This statement leaves open a lot of room for prosecution.

And in the following statement it looks like this deal is only available to this narrow group of people. It also appears that Holder expects quite a lot of action on torture.

The Attorney General has informed the Central Intelligence Agency that the government would provide legal representation to any employee, at no cost to the employee, in any state or federal judicial or administrative proceeding brought against the employee based on such conduct and would take measures to respond to any proceeding initiated against the employee in any international or foreign tribunal, including appointing counsel to act on the employee’s behalf and asserting any available immunities and other defenses in the proceeding itself.

After reading the ICRC report and then reading the newly released Bybee memo, it's clear to me why the videos of the interrogation of Zubaydah were destroyed. Because even though Bybee gave these people much more latitude than he should have given, these people clearly went beyond even those overly permissive guidelines. I truly hope someone made a copy of those tapes before they were destroyed and that they will eventually be released.

In the meantime Jay Bybee should be impeached.

Check out this hysterical WSJ op-ed by Hayden & Mukasey.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993446103128041.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I worked on a Post last night that I planned on reviewing and posting to my blog this morning. Unfortunately, I had computer problems and was not able to get my post up until this afternoon.

http://wwwdemocracity.blogspot.com/2009/04/mr-president-you-must-appoint-special.html

I was also looking forward to participating in the various discussions about this issue that I knew would be going on today but I missed all of them, until now!

I'm glad that Glenn has advocated that citizens get involved. That is actually what my blog post was all about. I don't have the legal background to write the wonderfully in-depth pieces that others can do so I think for people like me it's important for us to start calling on our fellow citizens to get involved and to provide them with links to articles and blog posts that will move them to do so.

The last thing I did before going to bed last night was to read the disgusting op-ed by Hayden and Mukasey. I posted a response on the WSJ site but I haven't checked to see if it was included. I also posted a link to that op-ed here in a previous thread. I guess I will now spend some time reading through all the comments here so that I can see what I missed!

By the way I was watching MSNBC and Barry McCaffrey was actually advocating for going after Bush officials much to Pat Buchanan's astonishment.

Some updated news on the Spanish prosecutions

Spanish Prosecutors Formalize Objections to Torture Indictments

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/europe/18spain.html?ref=global-home

I think without prosecutions for these war crimes that we will indeed run the risk that torture will happen again. In fact, I wrote a blog piece today calling on citizens of all political persuasions to demand that Obama appoint a Special Prosecutor so that we can prevent this small group of extremist from ever coming to power again.

http://wwwdemocracity.blogspot.com/2009/04/mr-president-you-must-appoint-special.html

I think that CNN purposely set up this panel of 3 to make it appear that Mr. Toobin was in the middle and therefore he was right. It's so obvious to me when they do this type of manipulation but apparently it works because they do it all the time.