...as a person who is above the law.

 Vice President Cheney admitted on national TV that he authorized the use of torture (screw those "harsh interrogation" euphemisms)  on prisoners.  The specific techniques in question are unequivocably torture, unequivocably violations of the Geneva Convention, unequivocably war crimes.  There's a list of precedents as long as your arm defining waterboarding in particular as a war crime.

 Really, the only question now is:  Are we a democracy, or aren't we?  Are we still America?  Or have we become something unrecognizable?  It's not enough that we elected someone who is against all that.   I get why nobody wants to open that can of worms politically.   However, there is a point where you can't just gloss it over and put a hope-and-change happy face sticker on it.   We passed that one long ago.   I don't buy the idea that there are more important problems; what's more important than your soul?

 In a democracy, there is no such thing as a person who is above the law.

 Pass it on.