So let me get this straight here.

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Today Obama announced that the pro-transparency forces within his administration had won the battle. Despite the CIA's fierce protests, he would be releasing documents showing in detail the torture in which the agency engaged. These memos will certainly badly damage both the morale and the credibility of the CIA, but Obama has made a principled stand in favor of transparency.

And, of course, as is the case with all things that one would expect DU to be happy about, this latest victory for transparency has sent DU into frothy conniptions of rage.

Why? Well, you already know: because the specific CIA agents who were told by their superior officers that what they were doing was not torture, and who appealed to the Justice department and were then told that what they were doing was not torture, are not going to be prosecuted for carrying out orders that the United States Department of Justice specifically and explicitly found lawful, but which the current administration has found unlawful. The problem is not that Obama has excused the people who ordered torture or that Obama has excused the people who concocted the legal justifications for torture, but that Obama will not attempt to imprison for torture the people who were told through every channel available to them that their actions were not torture.

Just to make this absolutely clear: DU is angry that Obama is not directing the Department of Justice to prosecute and imprison people for believing the explicit statements of the Department of Justice.

And this is apparently comparable to Obama embracing the justifications by high-ranking Nazis for the Holocaust, which is why people are angry upon learning that Obama has released the memos in exactly the same format that people were strongly and angrily demanding last night.

Awesome.