Sometimes people, even people we generally admire, are wrong.

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And this is one of those times. Obama wants to keep the lid on the abuses of prisoners promoted and carried out by the Bush Administration. I'm not sure why. Maybe he's horsetrading with somebody.

Never mind. It doesn't matter. No amount of cooperation from a former Administration member is worth abandoning the moral principle. Torture is wrong. People who torture, or who enable or pressure other people to torture, belong in jail.

The shame is not in the photos. The shame is in what happened when the photos were taken; the moving finger writes and there is absolutely no way to undo the shame now. Pull out the photos, pull out the memos, let them lie in the cleansing sunlight where everybody can see. Lay the perpetrators and the wrongs they did bare to the world. It is the only way to begin to set it right.

And for goodness sake, won't that torture-promoter Cheney slither back to his undisclosed location?

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He's definitely wrong. Whether it's because he wants to be (because he supports or condones the torture), or because he has to be (because there are reasons for his actions we don't know about), is still open to question as far as I can tell, but I don't know how much further I can go with that.

So maybe he'll be a disappointment. I never ruled out that possibility, and he's still miles better than the only likely alternative, but my heart goes out to everyone who put their faith in him without reservation. There's never yet been a politician who deserved that...but it doesn't stop us hoping for an exception to the rule.