Torture Investigation: Republicans Pull A Bellarmine

This reminds me of nothing so much as Bellarmine's (apocryphal) refusal to look through Galileo's telescope. The attitude is apparently: we know what we know, and don't want to be confused by the facts.

There's a bit of sophistical we-need-to-look-forward-not-back nonsense (an attitude that, strangely, was not popular on the right side of the aisle in the Clinton days...). But the real motive is a passionate desire to make sure that any ugly truths remain protected from sunlight.