(Sharon…BBN Managing Editor) Though at first I was proud of Secretary Rice’s appointment as the first Black woman to become Secretary of State that does not give her my pass for her direct role in what amounts to the sanctioning of human torture. The euphemisms being tossed around lately, “waterboarding” “insecting” “walling” “sleep deprivation”, to describe the perverted act of human torture will never diminish or absolve what Secretary Rice and the rest of the thugs and goons she ran with in the White House did for the eight years they were in power. If there is any prosecutorial or legislative investigation behind this madness of torturing people, Rice’s legacy as the first Black woman Secretary of State will forever be tarnished, AND she will deservingly be part of the lot under investigation. She can’t escape this one, and her undying “loyalty” to her president can serve as an excuse but for so far. I expect this lunacy from Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bush and the rest of the motley crew of judges and henchman , but it sickens me to know that Secretary Rice was doing their bidding. She was not only an enabler of human torture, but may as well have been in the room while the torture was going on. Early on in the Bush administration, then Secretary of State Colin Powell (Bush first term) was part of the White House chorus of insanity (he was the one who presented to the United Nations a pack of lies that led the US into this senseless war in Iraq), but he eventually found his out from the Bush administration - perhaps forced out - and he took it. His successor, Secretary Rice, should have found that same out. Instead, we have countless memories of her vacationing and huddling with the Bush clan for eight long, corrupt years. Finally, I hope there is an investigation and prosecution, and all of these violators of the United Nation's Convention Against Torture Treaty are held accountable. Even if no one goes to prison, I want the sordid details documented in world history books and seared in the digital world of information that indeed unspeakable, deviant acts to human beings were sanctioned by the highest level of the Bush administration.