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...is just as bad as the Politicization of Justice.
I think Digby might be right (she's pretty much always right, so the odds are in her favor).
Once the conventional wisdom starts settling in as Left = Anti-Torture, Right = Pro-Torture, it's a darker, tougher place from which to emerge. It's a simultaneously fundamental and sinister shift from Torture Under Any Circumstances = Un-American.
And by running away from holding BushCo accountable and focusing on the future, the President is actually calcifying that conventional wisdom, instead of defusing the partisanship on it, which he and his team probably think they are doing.
It's all very sad. Americans one day in the future will have to figure out how to deal with some monster in the Oval Office who will do illegal things while waving around the permission slip of the unchecked precedent being set today.