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Senator Feinstein is rotten. She's coasted on her illiberality for years, looking "good" only because the Republicans have been so very bad.
The torture issue is so huge, so unsavory, so corrosive of our country's politics and at least perceived moral standing. Maybe there needs to be a Torture Subcommittee in Congress to ensure that our "enhanced interrogation techniques" are properly applied. Wouldn't want to have an ineffective waterboarding failing to yield information, or accidentally drowning a victim of it.
What really sucks about our country's compromised stance on torture is the blazing hypocrisy that'll be ours when Americans are tortured -- we won't be able to offer much in the way of complaint without looking like complete jackasses.
If we're unwilling to have "enhanced interrogation techniques" applied to Americans, we shouldn't be inflicting them on others. And if we're unwilling to abandon torture as a part of our official policy, we can't complain when it comes back to haunt us. Shame on Feinstein and Wyden, shame on our country if we continue to use torture.
