I guess that I haven’t been following this closely enough. I was under the impression that the actual agents that did the interrogations were not going to be prosecuted, but the the lawyers who had signed off on the methods of interrogation might be prosecuted.

Now, let your mind not be cluttered with mental images of packs of ravening lawyers going after their own like a hyena pack turning on one of their own that has been wounded. We need lawyers. Who else can parse the legalese that they write their laws with? Lawyers, that’s who.

The real impact will come when the next administration tries to get legal opinions on controversial subjects. Who will be willing to step up and take a swing at a subject that may come back to bite them where they sit?