Torture: Obama opens the box

Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to conduct “a preliminary review into whether federal laws were violated” during interrogations was immediately attacked from both sides. House Minority Leader John Boehner called it “more of a witch hunt designed to satisfy political allies than a strategy to keep the American people safe.” Human Rights Watch Director Tom Malinowski wrote that “an investigation that focuses only on low-ranking operators would be, I think, worse than doing nothing at all.”