The outcry was silence ...

The United States of America, the country I have been so proud of for most of my life, is now officially a lawless state that tortures people. The citizens of the United States of America have accepted a government guilty of the same war crimes for which it helped prosecute, imprison and execute Nazis and their collaborators and enablers. That the United States of America was a torture state has been increasingly apparent for some time. But now there is no more pretense. The president has openly admitted the involvement of his administration in implementing torture as policy. And the outcry ... was silence ...