The irony in this sentence is almost too much to comment on since, of course, we have been torturing for some years now (probably even some of these people), and we have been all too willing to send detainees to countries with the specific intent that they be tortured there so long as we received “assurances” that this would not happen. Making such a gross mockery of the Convention Against Torture is perhaps not the worst crime of the Bush administration but certainly is a serious one.

Sometimes it’s difficult not to despair over all the damage this administration has done: political, economic and legal. It will take generations to undo it.