I don't really have much to say about this. Marcy Wheeler notes that the former president may actually be fudging his involvement, but the fact is that bragging about having tortured people is something you expect from authoritarian despots, not presidents of the United States. The fact that he can say so with little fear of legal recourse is a reminder that we're living in an age of executive impunity Richard Nixon could have only dreamed of. When Nixon said that when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, it was a tacit admission of lawbreaking that ensured America would remember him for the crook that he was. For George W. Bush, admitting that he broke the law only makes him more of a hero, if only to his own party.
