When I saw the headline Obama rules out prosecution for CIA officials for interrogation tactics, my heart sank. 'Hello', I thought, 'the disenchantment starts here'. However, his decision not to prosecute operatives for doing what they had Presidential and Attorney General sign-off for seems sensible. I don't see any mileage in lining up CIA interrogators because they did, essentially, what their President at the time had approved.
Mark Valladares puts it much better than I could here:
I think that President Obama has displayed a sense of pragmatism here. Torture has no place in a civilised society, no matter how evil our opponents are, and I trust that such acts will be prohibited, regardless of the circumstances. The victims of torture must be compensated and rehabilitated where possible.
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