"I'll tell you what you need to know, not what you want to hear." - Barack Obama
So far, at least on torture, Obama is fulfilling his promise.
Part of the problem is that the fix is still in, in Washington. If someone is looking for Democratic culpability, the largest heap is probably that they helped in the hush-hush.My 10,000 yards assessment is that the clubby Senate got sold by the perpetrators' political party that it would be "bad for the country" to air our dirty laundry. Whether 'We The People' or 'The Club' will have the final say on that, we'll see.
This view gets some backstop, possibly, from the fact that the House is willing to go get 'em, but the Senate wants another year to study and for the inquiry not to be independent.
