The Tipping Point Against Cheney?

From the pages of the Washington Times. The Dark Side speaks.

Lanny Davis, hardly a "left-wing vengeance-seeking Bush-hater", in fact went to school with Bush, scans the landscape:

"I have written many times in this space that I oppose any criminal prosecution of prior-administration officials on torture or other issues relating to the Iraq War and the war on terrorism, especially those CIA interrogators who relied in good faith on the instructions of policymakers and the legal opinions issued by Justice Department senior officials.

I have agreed with President Obama on the need to look forward, not backward.

But … I have changed my mind about the need to indict former Vice President Dick Cheney for complicity in illegal torture."

Davis feels as if Cheney, by doing multiple TV programs [read Fox] and conservative radio talk shows, not only defending torture but offering the defense that it worked, is saying: “I am Dick Cheney, I approved violations of the law in the name of the war on terror, and what are you going to do about it?”

He feels we should take Cheney up on his dare,

"I think it is time to take him up on his implicit dare and indict him for violating the 1994 federal law against torture."

The Right opening their eyes? The tipping point?

Source: Greg Sargent