Inside the CIA’s Black Site in Bucharest—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)

The Bush/Cheney legacy exposed, via Scott Horton at Harpers. The torturers should be kissing Obama's ass for not prosecuting them for war crimes.--SS

Inside the CIA’s Black Site in Bucharest—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine):

"With typically wishful thinking, CIA general counsel Stephen Preston claimed in September that “the controversy has largely subsided.” In fact, criminal probes across Europe are just now exposing the full scope of the CIA’s black sites. Under the CIA program, which was terminated by President Bush in September 2006, terrorism suspects were held and questioned using waterboarding and other Justice Department–approved torture methods that the Bush Administration labeled “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Bush-era Justice officials continue to insist that the techniques were lawful; their successors at the Obama Justice Department disagree, but have declined to investigate or prosecute their predecessors, giving legitimacy to the “golden shield” memoranda of the Bush DOJ."

Go read the whole thing.