It’s appalling, it’s deeply disturbing but we need to look it straight in the face. Journalism professor Mark Danner , writing in the New York Review of Books reports on, and excerpts at length from, a heretofore secret report by the International Red Cross. Danner describes in detail torture administered by Mr. Bush and Mr. Chaney (through their subordinates) in your name and mine. To people.

Sunday’s New York Times reproduced part of the Danner article here and the Washington Post’s snippets appeared Monday here. Read both but the original Danner article, though longer, is essential.

And the Murder? Oh that. Seymour Hersch, who has been covering the darker side of the Bush Years in the The New Yorker has suggested that a Special Ops team of assassins directly supervised by Mr. Chaney has been killing people around the world at (his) whim. Mr. Chaney (a la Gilbert & Sullivan) had a little list on which it was unhealthy to be. And you thought it was only dangerous to go hunting with him. Here is an MSNBC video of John Dean discussing the Hersch hints (more in Hersch’s new book?). Want More? Here.

Has this stopped?