Why Torturers will get away with it. (Those protesting will be imprisoned instead.)

http://www.alternet.org/why-torturers-will-get-away-it?akid=12567.294211.SviKRo&rd=1&src=newsletter1028494&t=12

According to the report, some episodes of interrogation were so blatantly sadistic and so obviously criminal that the men who witnessed them actually wept. More than one officer broke down and fled, through retirement or transfer, while the White House and the Pentagon continued to lie about the extent -- and the supposed necessity -- of these unprecedented crimes. Those lies were designed to prevent investigations or oversight from revealing the horrific facts that are now emerging.
Yet despite a long and ongoing cover-up -- and notwithstanding the specific revelations highlighted in the report -- the basic outline has been known since 2009, when portions of the CIA inspector general's report on torture were released by the Obama Justice Department.

What we have needed for years -- but evidently will never get -- is a truth and reconciliation process that might have granted freedom from prosecution to witnesses who testified publicly, honestly and completely about the crimes of that mercifully departed era. Instead, those miscreants will escape accountability altogether -- except in the pages of history, where the SSCI report will indict them over and over again.