by Patrick Appel
Glenn Greenwald is unsurprised by the annoucement:
[T]he U.S. Government has effectively shielded itself from even minimal accountability for its vast torture crimes of the last decade. Without a doubt, that will be one of the most significant, enduring and consequential legacies of the Obama presidency.
Adam Serwer fears that torture will return:
[T]he only thing preventing a future Republican president from using torture techniques is a flimsy, reversible executive order from the president himself, because no court has ever made a determination that the interrogation techniques themselves were illegal.
The Dish 