I'm honestly ashamed.

This is how we do things now. Maybe it always was, and I was just too naive.

But didn't there used to be, at least, some sense that abuses of power had to be conducted in the dark, because otherwise there would be repercussions?

Now we've the highest court in the land giving the big middle finger to the very idea of accountability.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > About That Whole "Mistakenly Torturing You" Stuff? Yeah. Tough Luck.:

"The Supreme Court today refused to give a hearing to a German man who says he was wrongly abducted, imprisoned and tortured by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity. Khaled Masri sued the CIA two years ago and sought damages for his five-month ordeal in a U.S.-run prison in Afghanistan.

...Masri, a car salesman, was on vacation when he was taken off a bus that had crossed the border into Macedonia. His passport was confiscated, and he was questioned for more than three weeks.

In late January 2004, Masri said he was blindfolded, taken to the airport and turned over to U.S. authorities, who flew him to a prison in Afghanistan. He says he was beaten and tortured by men who wore masks and were dressed in black.

He also says U.S. authorities would not permit him to contact the German Consulate. After several months, the CIA apparently realized it had made a mistake, and Masri was returned to Europe. But rather than return him to his home in Germany, he was dropped off at night on a hillside in Albania."