Reclaiming Our Soul

Paul Krugman argues that we must deal with the torture perpetrated by the past administration:

We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. In the past,
our government has sometimes done an imperfect job of upholding those ideals.
But never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation
stands for. “This government does not torture people,” declared former President
Bush, but it did, and all the world knows it.

And the only way we can regain our moral compass, not just for
the sake of our position in the world, but for the sake of our own national
conscience, is to investigate how that happened, and, if necessary, to prosecute
those responsible.