Endorsing Torture

The Bush Administration rushed in 2003 and 2004 to cover the CIA's ass after it started torturing people. The memos indicate that White House policymakers directly endorsed "controversial interrogation methods" including waterboarding:

It came up in the daily meetings. We heard it from our field officers," said a former senior intelligence official familiar with the events. "We were already worried that we" were going to be blamed.

This is just more fuel on the fire. The most criminal, wreckless, and blatantly avaristic administration in US history hasn't surprised me much, so throw this on the pile.