It's amazing how quickly the tide can turn. What would have been considered impossible a year ago is now the majority public opinion: Put those who authorized programs of torture on trial. Investigate this!

Hold people accountable! Or we live forever tainted.

If you live in the USA and you have a TV the daily exposure to murder, violence, brutality, greed and lust is quite astounding...not to mention incessant urging to eat, drink and pop pills. It's the background noise of the nation.

Even so the newly release legal justifications of torture by the Bush Administration are quite incredible, matching the calm world-class rationalizations of Machiavellian himself.

The sleazy way the Bush White House went out of their way to get these official legal opinions, and how they hoped this would cover their tracks and excuse their guilt, is also a story in itself.

President Obama's decision to make this information public last week has broken the dam on this issue and their ain' t no denying a flood will come and wash some people away.

IMMEDIATELY after release of these legal memos the UN head torture envoy said: US must prosecute Bush lawyers
saying the U.S. is obligated to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who were behind the policies that allowed the use of harsh interrogation tactics.

The world body's top anti-torture envoy says a U.N. convention requires the U.S. to pursue the case against officials who wrote memos that legitimize torture. He says that also includes CIA officials who said use of the tactics was legal.

Manfred Nowak says such actions are called "complicity or participation" to torture as defined by the U.N. convention. The envoy adds that "every reasonable person" would know that waterboarding is torture. Nowak also says failure to investigate could subject those responsible to prosecution aboard, here.