Bitter Grace

* If you're a non-senatorial US taxpayer in the George W. Bush administration

"An appeals court ruled on Friday that more than 6,000 pages of the so-called Senate torture report cannot be made public because they consist of congressional records that are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, which only covers federal agencies.

"The unanimous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington made clear that records that Congress shares with federal agencies can’t be disclosed if there’s a `clear intent' by lawmakers `to control the document.'”

-American Public Is Not Entitled To See Full Senate Torture Report, Court Rules

Yes, those lawmakers intended to keep vitally important information about US conduct, ethics, morals, tactics and strategy from the people on whose behalf, willy-nilly, it was perpetrated. That intention is something to consider in and of itself. From the point of view of senators' reasons, from the point of view of the role it thrusts upon us, whom they represent and whom our armed forces represent.

Personally, I am outraged to be forcibly placed in the position of the patron who is kept from overt and acknowledged awareness of what her thuggy employees are perpetrating and commanding our employees in the armed forces to perpetrate. To their targets' inury, their own injury, to the injury of the nation, present and future,