So, it looks like Diane Feinstein’s Senate Intelligence Committee is going to release a report sometime this summer that concludes that we didn’t learn shit from torturing people. We only know about this because the guy in charge of torturing people, Jose Rodriguez, has been going all over the place, including on 60 Minutes, claiming that the only reason that we found bin-Laden is because we tortured the crap out of someone. That assertion was too much to take for someone involved with the Senate investigation and they went leaking to Reuters. Jose Rodriguez is the guy who ordered the destruction of all the torture porn we had on video tape. He walks free because no one crosses the CIA, especially the guys who don’t give a damn about slamming people into walls or beating people’s legs to a pulp and leaving them to die. Bush and Cheney ordered this. It’s obscene that the Senate has been investigating the effectiveness of their order. What if it had worked? What then? We legalize torture?
I expect the Republicans on the Intelligence Committee to say the report is “politicized” and refuse to sign it. They never take responsibility for anything.