This is cursory judgment but no less informed than much of what I hear from pundits on television.
According to this book review, cited by Matthew Yglesias, the new book by Jane Mayer on America’s descent into the ranks of states that imprison without due process and torture without aim is:
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1) over-compensation by the Vice President and his office for not having prevented the attacks of 9/11/2001
2) eliciting so many false confessions and violating so many laws as to sabotage countless investigations and prosecutions
3) responsible for producing some of the bad intelligence used to justify the invasion of and war in Iraq
Which makes me think: elections are so incredibly important. Any voter who is flip about and/or unwilling to think out their position on elections is, in part, as guilty of the crimes spelled out above as the mad men who personally ordered them.