The FBI, which has not been known in the past for caring very much about the niceties of the law, was disturbed enough about the way that the CIA and the military were interrogating their detainees that their objections went all the way up to the National Security Council, which, of course, thought it was just peachy to torture people.
Note that it took years for the objections of the FBI agents to make it up that far and it was only after the shit from Abu Ghraib hit the fan that the upper levels of the FBI passed along the observations and the concerns of the agents. The FBI management waited until the tide of public opinion was starting to shift. It is probably fair to conclude that if the Abu Ghraib photos had not been leaked, the FBI management would have never said anything.
That is not standing up for the rule of law, as the FBI surely would like to portray this story. That is nothing more than institutionalized cowardice.
UPDATE: The FBI agents at Guantanamo opened a "war crimes" file on the interrogation practices. That's not my term for the file, that is what the FBI called it.
The dominoes are falling into place. I feel that it is becoming more and more probable that high-ranking members of the Bush Administration will be prosecuted for their crimes.
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