Digby: Unleashing The Beast

By Digby on December 14, 2007 - 2:30am.

This week we found out that the CIA had destroyed video evidence of torture and the Bush administration is so compromised that it can no longer state unequivocally that it would be against the Geneva Conventions to waterboard American servicemen.

The government argued that they had to destroy the tapes because they could not take the chance of revealing the identities of undercover agents. (An irony if there ever was one considering the Valerie Plame matter.) And then a fresh faced fellow appeared on TV to tell the world that he had been one of the participants. He seemed so young and earnest and said that while he now believed it was wrong, it had been a good thing because it had saved lives, (also debatable.)

But it remains to be seen if he will be representative of his brot