Forgive me if I roll my eyes at your precious outrage about torture.

[True Blue Door]

221. As I've said in other comments in the thread

what I have is the kernel of an idea: The key to the first step toward prosecutions is politically isolating a strategically-chosen potential defendant. Political isolation is a necessary prerequisite because institutional fear of unbounded recriminations and unforeseeable repercussions is the main reason this isn't happening.

That means working with someone in the Senate Judiciary Committee - probably Franken (people with Senate experience can obviously tell me if someone else is better suited) - and on the DL with someone in the Justice Department to start meeting with people who might not want investigations to proceed, on some innocuous pretext; sound out their reasoning and motives, and consider ways to subtly assure marginal accomplices that they would be kept out of it and thus have no interest in mobilizing their institutional networks against it.

Doing that would just be the faintest initial hint of a beginning to a first step. The reality of pursuing justice on this level is colossally fucking complicated - you're not going to get anywhere near to even beginning by just drumming up grassroots support. There has to be an inside game, and it's definitely not being played right now because Senators have a lot of different priorities and there is no well-funded lobby to play these kinds of games on this subject for our side - although there most certainly is for the institutional powers (like the CIA) who currently oppose investigations. They're 100% inside game, thus far unopposed.

Do you find this premise to be interesting? A complex game has to start somewhere, and from what I can see this notion is a good place to start thinking from. If you see something in it, talk and we can brainstorm here. If not, good luck with pamphleteering at coffee houses or whatever.