It has finally started.
This is from Spokane, Washington.

Letters / June 28, 2009
Torture should be punished
So, psychologists Mitchell and Jesson have been fired by the CIA. The designers of the Bush administration’s program of torture lived and worked right here in Spokane. Now, just like the Bush administration that hired them, they can just walk away unscathed after the diabolic evil they orchestrated.
I read recently that 58 percent of Americans think it is sometimes OK for our government to torture people. My god! What has this country become? Are we so easily manipulated by fear to believe the lies we are told to justify the most grotesque evil? It is against all of our laws.
The Bush administration key players who ordered torture and carried it out should be investigated, arrested, tried and sentenced as harshly as the law allows.
In this country, supposedly, no one is above the law. Not Bush, not Cheney, not Rice or Rumsfield. If we let this slide, it could easily happen again.
I strongly disagree with the current administration and Congress that we need to “move on.” The world will not forget, nor will it forgive, unless we clean our own house. The time is now. No more excuses.

Mary Weathers
Spokane