Why does John Yoo get to do anything other than devote the remainder of his life to combatting torture. Why does he get to just be a normal person you can quote in the newspaper without writing "a man centrally responsible for enabling global program of torture and abduction"
For the same set of reasons that Obama and his officials will never have to reckon with the drone program and the unknown number of civilian casualties Because Americans never accept a story in which they are the bad guys, especially when “they” are on the same political team