The LA Times reports that the UN has determined we torture prisoners at Gitmo. It irritates me that the UN is as powerless as the conservatives say it is, because they may otherwise actually be capable of forcing us to shut it down. Illegal permanent detention of even crappy people makes me somewhat irritable, and the continuous evidence we receive of detaining teenagers, hapless goatherds, and other persons irrelevant to the war on terror only makes it worse.

So, this news just came out, how long before the Bush administration even comments? I think they'll do the usual and just ignore it. After all, "we don't torture."

That will go down as one of the great lies of all time.