As Glenn Greenwald explains, the Democrats have also been engaging in quite the charade with their supposed outrage about the Bush administration's torture policy, given that they have retained in the leadership roles tasked with investigating Bush's intelligence abuses the very people who signed off on those abuses. 

Jay Rockefeller was one of the key Democrats briefed on the torture methods who never objected.

But it's far worse than that. In September, 2006, Rockefeller was one of 12 Senate Democrats to vote in favor of the Military Commissions Act, one of the principal purposes of which was to explicitly authorize the CIA's "enhanced interrogation program" to proceed (even though it continues to be illegal under the Geneva Conventions).  

Thus, not only did Rockefeller remain silent when continuously briefed on illegal torture methods by the CIA, he then voted to legalize those methods by voting in favor of one of the most Draconian laws in modern American history. That law also retroactively immunized government officials from any liability for past lawbreaking.

Rockefeller is not just any Democrat. He is the individual whom the Democratic Senate caucus thereafter elected - and still chooses - to lead them on all matters relating to intelligence.  Just consider how compromised he is and they are when it comes to investigating abuses by the intelligence community over the last six years. Rockefeller was complicit in all of those abuses, and the Democrats voted for him - and still support him - as their Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.  

How can Rockefeller possibly preside over meaningful investigations into conduct and policies - including the destruction of the videotapes and the conduct which those videotapes would reveal - of which he approved?

And how can Senate Democrats pretend to be outraged at such policies when the leader they chose supports them? 

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