Can we have our country back now?

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.

Holder is poised to name John Durham, a career Justice Department prosecutor from Connecticut, to lead the inquiry, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not complete.

The incidents of absolutely heinous crimes against humanity (without causing organ failure of course) cannot be ignored. And they can't be downplayed in the interest of national security because doing so severely weakens the nation's identity.

This is what is most troubling about the apologists' reaction to an examination of the CIA's torturing: They simply can not, do not, and will not understand that the sanctioned violation of human dignity is perforce a violation of our nation's most sacred principles. This is why I'll go to my grave believing that Cheney, Limbaugh, Senator Sanctimony, and the rest of the reprobates are guilty of treason.