The BBC's flagship news and current affairs program Panorama tonight rekindles the row on Waterboarding, with an interview with former CIA agent John Kiriakou who reveals that the CIA waterboarded suspect Abu Zubaydah in May or June of 2002 - several months before the practice was sanctioned in written memos by Bush administration lawyers.
According to the BBC News Website:
Mr Kiriakou led the CIA team that captured Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan on 28 March 2002, and was the first to speak to the badly injured captive before returning to the US.
Asked by the BBC's Panorama programme when the waterboarding phase of the interrogation began, Mr Kiriakou said: "That would have been at the very end of May or the very beginning of June 2002."
Meanwhile in the Republican blogosphere they again are trying to suggest that we should not investigate this because Bush and Cheney have now left office.
Yet these same people worry very loudly and publicly about any "Obama power grab" that they perceive. That is not to say that any grab Obama does make for power should be excused; it should not. But to complain so loudly while at the same time saying that Bush and Cheney should not be prosecuted for the lies they told is inexcusable.
More and more news continues to leak out of the lies America was told during the Bush administration. This latest revelation on Waterboarding - which I'm betting is not going to get much if any notice on the American traditional media - just adds to the list of things the previous administration should be held to account for.