Can we just say it now?

Analysis: Two takes on interrogations - Washington Post- msnbc.com

WASHINGTON - When an internal CIA report concluded in May 2004 that "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane, and undocumented" interrogation methods had been used on suspected al-Qaeda members, the predominant reaction within the Bush administration was not revulsion but frustration that the agency's efforts inside a network of secret prisons had not been more effective, former senior intelligence and White House officials recall.

Top officials in the Obama administration on Monday made clear that they read the report differently. Despite CIA resistance, they released unflattering portions of it on the same day the attorney general authorized a prosecutor to decide whether CIA employees broke the law while undertaking or overseeing those interrogations. [...]

The CIA's interrogation program "diverges sharply," the report stated, "from previous Agency policy and practice, rules that govern interrogations by U.S. military and law enforcement officers, statements of U.S. policy by the Department of State, and public statements by very senior U.S. officials, including the President, as well as the policies expressed by members of Congress, other Western governments, international organizations, and human rights groups."

I love the way MSNBC (you know, the "liberal" news network) works the false equivalency into the headline here, but it's pretty clear at this point that two things are incontroverable:

1. Torture was official policy of the US Government from 2001-2008
2. President George Bush repeatedly lied about this during his tenure in office

It's all moot, of course, because of the inviolate law of The Maturation Cycle of Bush Administration Scandals:

1. Crazy, hysterical, paranoid accusation by wild-eyed, partisan, left-wing loonies.
2. Old news.

And down the Memory Hole it shall go, along with all the other inconvenient scandals from what shall be forever known as the "era the rule of law forgot."