What's It Gonna Take?

Interesting post from Andrew Sullivan regarding torture and the destruction of evidence by the United States. Clearly, our government under George W. Bush was more interested in covering up the truth than in the rule of law.

Regarding the Jose Padilla case, during which government lawyers told the court that the Defense Intelligence Agency had "lost" a DVD of one of Padilla's "interrogation" sessions, Sullivan writes:

What more do we really need to know? And when is this country going to get serious about the war crimes perpetrated by its own government?

Actually, these are pretty easy questions to answer. We need to know a lot more, apparently, before we collectively get angry about the fact that Bush and Cheney and the rest violated the Constitution and international law. This country will get serious when we know more about it, and when it is reported in detail by the mainstream press. Until Americans see it on TV from ABC, CBS, NBC, or CNN, it's going to stay a sideshow topic. Pathetically sad.