“Those methods, read on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009, appear graphic and disturbing.”

That’s how the DNI approached the memos released yesterday. As I recall, September 11, 2001, was a bright, sunny day out my window, until the smoke of human ashes obscured the view.

The president yesterday said that “withholding these memos would only serve to deny facts that have been in the public domain for some time.” If the facts are already out there, why the need for yesterday? Unless you’re looking to drum up support for prosecutions?

Torture at the hands of Americans should never be swept under a rug. But some adult in this administration ought to be taking the headlines they are making deadly seriously.