I wanted to read the recently released torture memos before I posted about them, but I’ve been tied up with wedding stuff and haven’t had time to read them in full.

Instead, I’ll just point you to hilzoy’s posts here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

The only thing I’d add is that it is completely astonishing to me that there are actual cheerleaders out there for this type of treatment.  It’s truly disgusting.  I really can’t take it, and I fucking blow my top whenever anyone tries to defend this garbage.  It’s just so wrong that it’s literally stupid.  For once, Shep Smith and I are on the same page:

It’s good to see that John McCain is back in the saddle also. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the balls to keep the CIA in his DTA legislation that he cites because he was too busy appeasing the wingnuts for his presidential run:

My general feelings about all of this are summed up in my review of The Dark Side.