Friday, April 24, 2009

Temptation

My view is that the Justice attorneys whose opinions supported "enhanced" interrogation and the interrogators who performed it should be left alone. They did what they did in the emotionally charged days following 9/11 when it truly felt like the nation might be struck anywhere at any time. If the current administration doesn't find such information gathering activities acceptable, it shouldn't do them.

On the other hand, I'm tempted to support legal prosecution of everybody who knew about waterboarding and did nothing to stop it, just to send Nancy Pelosi to Federal prison. If you don't know to what I refer, see yesterday's blog post "Nancy Knew in 2002."

Imagining Nancy doing the "perp walk" wearing steel bracelets makes me enthuse like Argus Filch imagining whipping Hogwarts students in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.