A "Vital Tool" Is Back

It puzzles me why it took so long for the Tyrant to sign his hall pass on torture—there's probably an interesting story in that but I haven't even seen any comments re the delay on the web. It didn't take long, however, for Snow to indicate, via non-answer, that the Tyrant's "vital tool" of secret prisons are working again. If this is indeed the case we can be pretty sure that researchers will again track the torture planes and track down the torture chambers. A revived international brouhaha over torture could not come at a worse time from Condi's perspective, having the potential to sour relations across the board. And I continue to believe that one or more European states, eventually, will move to indict the Tyrant and his gang à la Pinochet.