Why are the Lefties babbling AGAIN about 'torture'?

Simple: It's business as usual politics from the Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" slime machine.

Noteworthy:

"Since January 2007, Democrats have been in charge of both houses. At any time they wished, they could have revived the Kennedy Amendment, and passed it. Since January 2009, moreover, Democrats have run not only Congress but the White House. At any time they wished, they could have ended what they call the 'false choice between our security and our values' (translation: their considered choice of no security and their values). At any time they wished, they could have settled the debate and passed a law: No more waterboarding.

They haven’t done that. For all the high dudgeon, they won’t do it. And the reason for their reticence is shameful: To clarify the law would be to admit that the law has been unclear. Clarifying law is not the objective, settling political scores is.

To enact laws against coercive interrogation today would demonstrate that Democratic witch-hunts based on the coercive interrogation of yesterday — against the intelligence officers who carried it out and the legal experts who arrived at the inconvenient truth that our law did not prohibit it — are grotesque. These investigations violate the constitutional bar against ex post facto prosecutions. They run afoul of the constitutionally derived 'rule of lenity,' which bars prosecutions based on vague statutes that fail to provide adequate notice of what the law forbids. And they flout the doctrine of qualified immunity, which protects government officials from liability unless their conduct transgresses, as the Supreme Court has put it, 'clearly established statutory or constitutional rights.'

What is going on beneath President Obama’s theatrics about 'our values' (again, meaning his values) is a cynical farce. If our values were really at stake, if there were a consensus among us (i.e., Americans) that harsh interrogation tactics could never be justified, the Democrat-controlled Congress would outlaw them today and bask in the resulting adulation. But there is no such legislation, because the goal here has nothing to do with improving American policy.

The goal is vengeance, pure and simple."

....and:

"The Left likes to depict itself as the last bastion of due process. It decries federal conspiracy and racketeering statutes because, in the hands of unscrupulous prosecutors, they can be stretched to cover innocent conduct. They condemn the Patriot Act’s investigative powers as traps for the unwary. They reject military commissions because the governing procedures purportedly create new, ex post facto war crimes. They challenge Congress’s laws against material support to terrorism as vague and overbroad, criminalizing activities they claim are protected by the First Amendment.

And that leaves us with the strange and reprehensible paradox: If Democrats get their way, patriotic public servants acting in the interest of national security, during a time of national emergency, will be railroaded with less due-process protection than the same Democrats demand for mafia dons, drug kingpins, or al-Qaeda terrorists."

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