Looking Forward, I see only two possibilities

[Motown_Johnny]

The combination of...

A) V.P. Cheney's admissions that he "signed off" on the enhanced interrogation techniques

B) The description of those techniques in the recently released memos

C) The report by the International Red Cross that witnessed the use of those techniques and stated definitively that it was torture


...represents a specific quantity of evidence upon which a decision can be made to either launch an official investigation or not.

If no investigation is launched, I see only two possibilities when looking forward and IMO neither is acceptable.


#1) The Justice Department will require more evidence than that which the combination of A,B and C represents to launch any investigation.

#2) The Justice Department will give up any pretense of equal distribution of justice to all Americans without regard to their social status.



Anyone see a third choice I have overlooked?

[Fovea]

1. Or #3 where we stall and jive

until the international community starts demanding an international tribunal.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. I mean in regards to domestic investigations, Will Justice not be equal for all Americans or

will the threshold for launching an investigation be so high that none are ever launched?


My post is limited in scope to domestic issues.

[Fovea]

6. Then the only other question i have is this.

If it is not the DoJ that has the hearings, if it is congressional, and it ends with a finding *and* legislative safeguards in place, is that partial justice?

I hope the the DoJ can do the right thing, but I know the pressures that are being put to bear on the Obama administration are extreme to save the careers of
our own Nuremberg defense boyz and girlz.

I think our problem is a variant on the famous Robert Anton Wilson saying...

"Support your state police for a better police state!"

We have way over what we need to spend for mil/intel.
We could be equally safe with a quarter of what we spend now plus
a realistic policy.

[Richard Steele]

3. 3rd choice: business as usual, without official comment on the subject you're discussing.

My money is on that one.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. which means that justice will be distributed unequally based on status

this falls into one of my two choices

[Richard Steele]

5. It's the 'Merkin way, and it always has been. nm