Simple cause and effect

Look, I've posted enough times on torture for my regular readers to know where I stand on the issue. (If you're not quite sure, check my previous posts.) In light of the memos that have been officially released (and somehow, in some nebulous fantasyworld compromise our security by detailing techniques that have existed since the Spanish Inquisition), the administration is calling for "looking forward." Congress is calling for an investigation. Left-wing bloggers are calling for arrests.
Okay, this left-wing blogger would like to see some arrests.
We know that detainees (I just love the ambiguity of that term) were tortured. There is no dispute over the tactics used. The dispute comes from the terminology. The previous administration would have you believe that slapping, slamming into walls, forced nudity, confinement in a very small area with a stinging insect, and --of course-- waterboarding are "enhanced interrogation tactics." Humanity, on the other hand, recognizes these as forms of torture, which is defined as

(1) “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;
(2) “severe mental pain or suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from—

(A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering;
(B) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality;
(C) the threat of imminent death; or
(D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality... .

That is from the U.S. Code. Our national law. They broke it by torturing. People who break the law should be arrested. Just sayin'.