Torture Reportage...

This is the sort of blog post I know I will live to regret...but kudos to the Senate Intelligence Committee for releasing today's six hundred page report on the use of torture in the US lead "war on terror". Probably this will prove an intolerable provocation world wide....but a functioning democracy intent on perpetuating itself must be rigorously honest with respect to it's actions and policies. Said torture report falls squarely within the necessity for democratic honesty and transparency. Nine tenths of the ills of this republic stem from the desperate need to maintain secrecy over fallacious and self destructive projects and initiatives...I agree with Senator Feinstein when she asserts the release of the torture report will make it more difficult for the US Government to take this malevolent shortcut in the future. Likely all this High Mindedness will come back to haunt me, (or it would if anyone read any of this mishaugas). Then again, there are people in this country who cannot be reconciled with the Government's power of taxation who themselves have not problem one with the the Government's power to torture....