Some of us are giddy about change, but also resolved that there will be justice. Torture, once spurned by Americans to demonstrate our commitment to higher ideals, was embraced by the Bush administration for the War on Terror, despite it being ineffective.
A new, formerly secret memo to the CIA, written in the summer of 2004, expressly permitted torture by agents. Of course, the secret is really just to change the definition of torture.
Maybe we can change the definition of executive privilege. Here's one vote for Bush to stand trial in international court after he leaves office.
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