US torture 'indisputable', CNN's humiliation, and Iran sanctions | Glenn Greenwald

Two separate bipartisan reports with surprising pronouncements, and a cable news debacle, highlight similar themes

(updated below - Update II)

Today is a travel day for me, so I'll use this opportunity to note some brief though significant items:

(1) It's hardly news that the US instituted and for years maintained a systematic torture regime, but the success of the Obama administration in blocking all judicial proceedings has meant there has been no official decree that this is so. A comprehensi...