David Broder again urges: No accountability!
Jeepers, he's back at it as of yesterday.
Here is the
argument for accountability, to me: If you don't sanction people for torturing, any Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, that
comes in the future may freely pursue some other deranged and bloodthirsty fantasy, so long as they
sit down and argue it out and decide in their twisted, delusional,
self-congratulatory deliberations that some
things are just too important. Like
the "need" to begin a ruinous war in Iraq, and the "need" to have info about a
strongman's imagined ties with a terrorist he would in reality kill in an instant if he
had the chance. Future abusers may smugly commit us to another such nightmare if they feel
assured, as Broder wants, that there will be no consequences for lawbreaking: why not just go ahead?
As long as they paper the file with the drivel below, then war-criminals-or-not, they must go scot-free, as Broder scolds us:
"The memos on torture represented a deliberate, and internally well-debated, policy decision, made in the proper places -- the White House, the intelligence agencies and the Justice Department -- by the proper officials."
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