Oh, spare me the lectures [1] about torture, and spare me the self-righteous legal sanctimony attached to the idea that someone actually did what needed to be done to save American lives. What was the purpose of maintaining those tapes, given that the event was fully documented? So they could end up on youtube for someone’s political leverage? And of course, exposing the CIA operatives…. whose identities, when Valarie Plame was all the rage, they screamed should not be revealed. Funny how that concern melts away when there’s Republicans to bop off.
And spare me the nonsense about how Congress poking around this is a good thing. The bottom line is Congress is motivated not by some concern for their fellow man but to whip up the frenzy for the purpose of political revenge against a President they’ve been flat out desperate to get some advantage on for eight years.