The U.N. is adding fuel to the fire. Nowack (the U.N.’s chief ‘rapporteur’ on torture) is now demanding prosecution of those in the Bush administration who used or authorized waterboarding.
We know this has diddley squat to do with "Bush" even though they will use the residual 'bush-hate' to sell it. At one level, it is about dhimmitude to the UN and international courts, and at another, pulling the guts out of our intelligence extraction capability in the future.
The unintended consequence, of course, is that the information believed to be possessed would have to be more forcibly extracted and the remains disposed of.
'Outsourcing' remains an option as well, and although imperfect, may be the only option.
Like so many other aspects of life in which timely and decisive action is required to be effective (combat arms, law enforcement, self-defense), this whole charade is designed to get the people who perform these tasks to hesitate, to act indecisively, in a venue where he who hesitates is lost.