Per Think Progress:

Last month, Phillip Zelikow disclosed that while serving as a top-aide to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2005, he had written and circulated a memo expressing grave concerns about the Bush administration’s torture regime. Another memo Zelikow co-authored at around the same time even offered a legal alternative to the program. Now, it turns out that strong opposition to President Bush’s interrogation policies came from within his tight-knit inner circle. Karen Hughes, counselor to the president, told the Houston Chronicle this week that she was “very vocal in the internal debate”

You know what?  

That’s it.  I’ve had it with this crap

If you were part of this administration and you knew that torture was going on, and kept silent about it while we were committing crimes of war, you probably had your reasons for not going public.  I’m not going to judge that.  

No.  Scratch that.  I’ll judge that.  

You were wrong.  

You had no business allowing this administration to engage in criminal acts and no business just relying on saying things internally and going through appropriate channels.

But that’s not the point of this piece.

If that’s what you chose to do, you have to live with that, and one of the rules of living with that is that you do not, at this point in time, get to go back and say that you opposed it at the time.  

You do not get to attempt to whitewash your public image.  

You do not get to pretend you were not party to this.

You do not get to be absolved of your complicity through the description of how you registered your protests at the time.  

You do not get to play the good guy by having waited until that administration was out of office to say “oh, by the way, I didn’t like it when it was going on.”

You were part of this.

You stood by this administration when it was committing criminal acts.

There is a word for that.

The word is accomplice.