What We Always Knew

The long, long, long awaited Senate Intelligence Committee report about how the Bush Administration used the Iraq pre-war intelligence is finally out. It confirms what we already knew: that the administration exaggerated the intelligence in order to take this country into war.

A rather timid NYTimes article on the report and its history. A more damning, and rightly so, article from Huffington Post.

A separate critical report from the committee about the doings of the Pentagon's renegade intelligence operation set up by Rumsfeld and I think run by Douglas Feith.

So what's to be done about all this? Impeachment? Prosecutions? Probably not this year, but I've been wondering if once a Democrat got into the Oval Office, namely Obama, would some type of prosecutions begin, particularly of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Feith, etc. How can these people be allowed to get away with this? If nothing is done stateside, how about the International Criminal Court starting war crimes proceedings?

There's also the torture aspect, mainly in the overall "war on terror". Any accountability going to occur for the authorized torture at Gitmo, in Afghanistan, the extraordinary renditions, surely in Iraq beyond the "bad apples" at Abu Graib?