What is the point in a multi-year investigation of torture practices of the Bush administration?

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2. no U.S. President has ever recognized their authority over anyone in our government

. . .not likely Congress would either.

We have a better chance of building a political movement to demand changes to actual law which would criminalize the acts of torture. Further, I believe that pursuing charges in court for actions revealed in the investigation is a matter of will, more than it's as hopeless as Holder's surrender would suggest. It's not as if time has run out for the types of offenses we're talking about; just the Justice Dept.'s will. That will can be bolstered by our political activism and our advocacy.

We're not as impotent as folks are claiming; neither is the presidency.