But for our highest government officials, including the ones responsible for this prosecution, we have a different story altogether. In 2002, the Bush DOJ radically re-defined "torture" and illegal treatment of detainees to exclude anything that falls short of "the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." The DOJ's John Yoo even decreed that the President could legally order "'scalding water, corrosive acid or caustic substance' thrown on a prisoner" and possibly even "slitting an ear, nose or lip, or disabling a tongue or limb."

Can't wait for the Bush administration to be over.

@Kelkia - me too. It's too bad we'll have to deal with his shadow for years to come via the judiciary.

True dat! Expect the right-wing Bund in the Supreme Court to put up a stiff fight if Obama wins. They handed the country to Bush in 2000, they are not going o give it up so easily.