I suppose someone has to do the follow-on work, years later, reporting the actual consequences as they played out. Yet two things about this particular piece in

I suppose someone has to do the follow-on work, years later, reporting the actual consequences as they played out. Yet two things about this particular piece infuriate me: 1) Most of us probably could've foreseen, and did foresee, that there would be human consequences to this shitty evil program. Even those who didn't have a particularly vivid mental picture of that, could still tell it was a shitty evil program. So to have it reported as news now is like, "Wow, no shit?" 2) The ones doing the reporting in this case were complicit in supporting the Bush administration in these very efforts back then, so they're now deploring that in which they participated. When you do that, it is generally accompanied by an APOLOGY. Also see my very similar comment from 3 weeks ago on the Washington Post suddenly betraying Snowden: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12527065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12527065