Today, America learned that the CIA took videotapes of the torture of people kept prisoner by the President of the United States, and then destroyed them. When a federal judge asked to see the videotapes, the CIA lied to the judge and said that the videotapes never existed.
The videotapes could have been used as evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in a criminal trial, and were destroyed in order to prevent the torture from ever being known by the American public.
But, will anyone in the CIA be held responsible? Will George W. Bush be impeached?
No, no, certainly not. After all, the news was released on a Friday, and very few Americans were in the mood to pay attention to serious things. Tomorrow, there shall be college football, and the day after that, the NFL games, and then, by Monday it will be mostly forgotten.
Justice will rot underneath our feet, and nothing will be done to stop it.