The President has vetoed a law that makes it illegal for the CIA to engage in waterboarding. We have now hit rock-bottom. Waterboarding, by any definition, is torture. But as I have said before, The practice of waterboarding is against the law. breaking the law is not what it used to be.

We knew after 9/11 that things in the United States would change. We knew that war was around the corner and that civil liberties at home would be curtained. That certainly happened, though we got more war than we bargained for, $12 billion per month to be exact. But torture? We did not see that coming. At least I didn't.