To anyone who thinks releasing the torture report will cause people to be killed...

[Vox Moi]

14. No 'Exceptionalism' on this issue: we own it.

I'm thinking of how the American army forced German citizens to walk through the concentration camps so they could see for themselves what was done in their name.

We held the Nazis accountable Nuremberg and we sat in judgement of them, extolling our virtues of accountability and rule of law. We hung them, imprisoned them and documented their crimes in open court for posterity.

Nobody argued that this would give Germans a bad name or subject them to reprisals.

Americans were very proud of Nuremberg but if we then say that we are exempt from the standards of justice we demand of other people, we make a mockery of ourselves.

Making public the findings on torture is something much less than the level of accountability we demanded of the Germans and if we are to continue to beat our chests for being The Best Country in History, we damn well should act like it.