The final Department of Justice report is in on the Bush-era lawyering that led to a world-wide program of torture. In the scalding report, the DOJ . . . . .
Oh, wait. It says that everyone involved used “poor judgment.”
Poor judgment is wearing acid-wash jeans on a first date. Or buying a Slap Chop™. Or going ahead with your honeymoon plans to Haiti. Creating a sprawling network of secret prisons where you conduct inhumane acts of torture is not poor judgment, it’s a monstrous evil and a violation of clearly articulated and long-standing laws.
From now on, we will only refer to the Department of Justice*