Opinion: No accountability for torture

05/08/12: The New York Review of Books has this post from our own David Cole discussing the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's dismissal of Jose Padilla's lawsuit against John Yoo.  He writes that in closing off yet another avenue of accountability for the wrongs US officials intentionally inflicted on suspects in the “War on Terror,” the Ninth Circuit’s decision does not break new ground. After all, the Justice Department long ago decided not to investigate or prosecute Yoo and others for authorizing torture.  Professor Cole concludes that, at the very least, we should have some sort of commission to determine what actually took place, and that we should apologize.