Jane Mayer "About a year ago, a book came out in England that made a fascinating prediction: at some point in the future, the author wrote, six top officials in the Bush Administration would get a tap on the shoulder announcing that they were being arrested on international charges of torture."

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/04/13/090413ta_talk_mayer?ref=fp5The book is by Phillipe Sands Torture Team, Rumsfeld's Memoand the Betrayal of American Values, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2008. Well worth reading.

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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