Nazis, Imperial Japanese, Khmer Rouge and US

Salon summarizes the disturbing details of CIA torture.

If you can stand it, read the whole thing, but how this treatment doesn't eventually result in war crimes prosecutions for someone is hard to see.

If no one is ever held accountable for this torture program then Nuremburg will be proven to have been nothing more than victor's justice and that our claims to the contrary were a lie.

Also under threat are the ethics of entire professions. Medical, mental health and legal professionals took part in all of this and their ethical failures here were monumental.

New CIA director.

It appears to have been a long and difficult search to find someone both qualified to lead the agency yet unsullied by the Bush crime regime, but Obama has tapped Leon Panetta to head the spy agency.

Panetta has had a long and distinguished career in Washington, although not in intelligence. He'll have his work cut out for him, but this is another sign of how seriously Obama takes governing.

http://www.panettainstitute.org/institute/leon_panetta.htm