The case of Fouad al-Rabiah - this absolutely tears it.

From Andrew Sullivan, on a recent torture case:

An astonishing, and largely ignored, judicial ruling issued on September 17 in the case of one Fouad al-Rabiah told us that the US government knowingly tortured an innocent man to procure a false confession.

A false confession. Gone, ripped to pieces by the perpetrators' own words entered into evidence, is the sordid myth that torture was only done to the worst of the worst, and only to keep us safe from imminent attack, and only by rogue CIA agents flouting the official rules. This was Guantanamo. It was to save prosecutorial face. How many of these cases do we need to see before we recognize the pattern, and DEMAND to bring the whole putrid mess out into the light of day?

One more quote from the article, for anyone still swooning over the Nobel and imagining that the election brought us into different times:

Shockingly, although Barack Obama’s justice department knew the details of this case, it persisted with the Bush administration’s attempt to prosecute him.

This is repellent, and it is NOT going away. Obama and the Democratic party will be held to account for this, by history if by nothing else.