It's been widely reported that Attorney General Eric Holder appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA's use of torture under the Bush administration. Personally, I am completely opposed to torture. In my mind, the United States is THE only nation in the world that can afford to hold itself to a higher standard ethically and morally. Some call this approach idealistic. While I can appreciate pragmatism to an extent, you cannot deny that at some point humans must be accountable to eachother. By engaging in torture we simply degrade ourselves, our nation, and our founders. We endanger our own representatives throughout the world and perhaps most importantly, we seem almost ignorant of the sacrifice of our own soldiers for freedom and equality. While addressing the practices of the Bush administration is not out of line, the fact that Attorney General Holder is going to prosecute the individual CIA officers upsets me. In my mind, they were doing what they were told in the interest of national security. If anyone is to be prosecuted it should be those who were in political positions during that administration and, in effect, ordered those practices.