CIA Torturing Prisoners? Nothing To See Here, Keep Moving

The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee doesn't even want to check into the widespread, highly credible allegations about possible misconduct by the CIA in its treatment of terrorism suspects. Despite literally hundreds of news articles in the last few weeks detailing at length the abuses of the CIA and the government at large, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas is blocking a full inquiry into "the detention, interrogation and rendition authority" [that's when we ship off prisoners to countries like Saudi Arabia so they can be tortured -- something widely reported but which Bush insists we never do] of government agencies for intelligence purposes, says the New York Times.

Roberts wants to downplay the investigation by only doing the standard oversight and he certainly wants to wait until the CIA does its own investigation of itself...which the CIA says may take a while, don't you know. If you're in Kansas, please give Roberts an earful. Why is he ashamed of the truth?