Torture Memos Declassified

Obama's decision to declassify CIA torture memos is more than just an exposure of the wrongdoings of Bush's administration. It admits that for years, the United States, as a nation got it wrong—that torture didn't produce anything valuable.

For once, in a very long time, the government has owned up to its wrongdoings instead of hiding it in a dizzying shroud of classification.

A recent Time article tells us that none of the information gained by torture couldn't have been gained by traditional techniques of information gathering. Not only did we damage our good reputation of a nation that frowns on the use of torture, we gained very little if nothing by succumbing to it.

But at least this has been admitted and not surrounded by controversy for years to come. Declassifying the memos lets us move on, and take the lessons from history as we should have done following the attacks of 9/11.

See the memos for yourself here.