Bush signed torture orders.

It actually pisses me off that this is coming out now. If it was a couple months earlier, maybe Abu Ghraib would've gotten a mention in this election. Running away from US-sanctioned torture instead of shaming the Administration with this issue was the single worst calculation of the Kerry campaign. How could we not raise the fact that the President signed something like this:

The two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order states that the President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and "sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc." The ACLU is urging the White House to confirm or deny the existence of such an order and immediately to release the order if it exists. The FBI e-mail, which was sent in May 2004 from "On Scene Commander--Baghdad" to a handful of senior FBI officials, notes that the FBI has prohibited its agents from employing the techniques that the President is said to have authorized.

It's a sad day in America when we're authorizing techniques that even the FBI knows are wrong. I'm telling you, this country would have voted for the hooded prisoner over Bush, we just didn't have the guts to take the hood out of the closet.

Will Torture get a "-gate" now? I think it'll be too little, too late, with too many exciting developments like the Oscars and who's wearing what at the Inauguration on which to report.