IT'S WAR, NOT POLICING:

Torture Roulette: The Obama administration has picked the worst possible case for its first torture trial. (Dahlia Lithwick, Dec. 14, 2009, Slate)

[T]oday yet another path to accountability for government-sanctioned torture was blocked at the starting gate. To be clear, it's not that torture victims are losing these trials. They can't even find their way into a courtroom. And, time after time, it's the Obama administration barring the door.

In a conference call with reporters late last week, ACLU lawyers pointed out that, as of this month, not a single torture victim has had his day in court, and that no court has yet ruled on the legality of the Bush-era torture policies.

It's not even a justiciable question.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 15, 2009 7:02 AM