I will harp again on this point. We must not let George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Libby, Yoo, Bybee, Rove, Hughes, and the cabal with which they infested Washington, D.C. for eight years walk away scot free. We must not. Why?
Because these sorry excuses for homo sapiens made this happen:

On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand a foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food, or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves and had been left there for 18 24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the A/C had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room probably well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night.
Sensitive but Unclassified FBI Memo Apr 2, 2004

and because we cannot let them get away with it. Some things, to misquote that old Tex Ritter song about High Noon, are indeed worth the fight. "And I must face a man who hates me, or lie a coward, a craven coward, or lie a coward in my grave." I don't believe there's a question left about whether the draft-dodging high officials in the past administration are or ever were anything but craven cowards.

Because we are the United States of America. We are not a Bush League Nation. I don't give a flying damn what post-partisanship demands -- those who authorized, ordered, okayed, torturing prisoners belong behind bars. Preferably for life, without possibility of parole. I would not demand solitary confinement; but I damn sure would lobby for hard labor -- based on the work they did to destroy our country in the name of their values and their morals and their enhanced interrogation techniques, to feed their sadistic need to appease their rage and enlarge our fears, they've earned it.

Hanging is too good for them.

The day will come when American GIs will be taken prisoner, again. If we have let the people who did this to prisoners go unpunished, what limits will there be on the mistreatment applied to our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters taken prisoner? None.

You can build nothing on fear and rage that does not become despoilment. So we must approach this carefully; we must build these cases to be not merely watertight but lawyer-proof. We must, absolutely, not rush to a false acquittal in a single one of these cases. But we must investigate, indict, bring to trial -- and upon conviction we must punish.