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Doesn't it seem that there's a possibility that post 1/20 there is a generally bloodletting among the torturers. Now that both Cheney and Bush have led the way by admitting they authorized torture, could it be that all the rest come out of their dark corners, sacrificing their supervisors as quicklyl as they can?
I am perhaps being overly optimistic, but it feels like the continuous dribbles of new information we're getting now threaten to overwhelm the MSM's constant "don't look to the past," bandage-on-a-severed-artery narrative.
Even if it were to come to pass, would people feel that bloodletting was the cure? In other words, once the grotesqueness is all out on the table, does anyone really want to piece through it and prosecute? Or could it go the other way: a steep, but sticky slide to criminal proceedings?
