Justice Dept. is investigating torture policy

The New York Times today reports: "The Justice Department revealed Friday that its internal ethics office was investigating the department’s legal approval for waterboarding of Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency and was likely to make public an unclassified version of its report."

This included "an internal review of the legal memorandums the department has issued since 2002 that authorized waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods."

In other words, they will be accounting (one way or another) for those 2002 memos that the Bush administration used to justify the use of torture on terror suspects.

Will we finally see some real accountability?

I am hopeful, but I am not optimistic. Because, in essence, this appears to be another case of the Bush administration investigating itself.