Now take a deep breath.
Yes, people should go to jail. Yes, practicing torture puts our own soldiers at risk. Yes, it is an ineffective technique. But it's the debate that the Bushies want to have instead of the other numerous scandals of the past 8 years. Public opinion polls are mixed, and in times like the present it could appear highly damaging to be using government resources on differences of policy(even if one set of policies were unquestionably illegal and wrong).
Most importantly, Don Siegelman deserves better from us. So do those U.S. Attorneys that were unjustly fired. So do those who withstood politically-motivated prosecutions
If I had to choose which reason to send Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, or Alberto Gonzales to jail for, it'd have to be for this one. Monica Goodling is just the tip of the iceberg. The revelation that Representative Jane Harman was dropped from a legitimate investigation after agreeing to provide political-help for the Bush Administration is just the latest example of the injustice done at the Department of Justice under Alberto Gonzales. This is the investigation that the Bushies don't want us pursuing, and it is the one that we should pursue hardest.
People went to jail for being of the wrong party. People lost their jobs for refusing to bend the law into not a tool of justice, but a tool of the Republican Party. No public opinion polls are necessary for this issue, and from what little we know already, there is a closet full of skeletons that we have only peaked into.
And yes, there are many other areas of the past 8 years that deserve investigation. Far too many.