To prosecute the authors of the torture memos is not to punish someone with
> whom you have a policy dispute; it is to hold accountable perpetrators of a
> terrible crime, now matter how well intended that crime was as a means to
> protect against further terrorists attacks, also terrible crimes.
Prosecuting someone for a legal opinion is fundamentally no different than criminalizing any other sort of opinion.
And if arguing that unambiguous atrocities are perfectly compatible with bourgeois law is a crime, a lot of us should have been packed off to the Supermax a long time ago.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."