A whole generation grew up thinking the principle repeated over and over again at the war crime trials after WWII were true: That saying you "were only obeying orders," was not a defense.

But former VP Cheney says it is, that "legal memos," given to the CIA said it was okay.

Cheney also says torture is okay because "it helped save American lives."

Obama is doing great damage to our country, making us less safe, Cheney contends, because 1) These methods are needed to keep us safe and 2) He is sapping the morale of our CIA by allowing the newly announced investigations of the torture program by the Dept. of Justice.

Besides being "offended," Cheney also announced that he hasn't decided if he will cooperate with the DOJ investigation.

Of course there are lots of holes in the argument. If Hitler had his Justice Dept. write him a memo saying it was okay to murder 6 million Poles and 5.5 million Jews and millions of union organizers and anti-war activist, would that make it o

How is it possible in modern democratic society that war criminals are free to decide what to do with consequences of their crimes?

yeah, those things called laws really are a bitch aren't they.

Because we all know that it ain't the sin that's wrong, is the getting caught part.