As Kevin Drum says if the best argument against releasing the last still-classified Bush-era torture memos is that doing so might embarrass people, countries, and institutions that were involved in war crimes, then that’s not really much of a reason at all. That’s embarrassing, shameful stuff. That’s why you need to release the memos.
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