Today the New York Times ran an editorial:
A prosecutor should be appointed to consider criminal charges against top officials at the Pentagon and others involved in planning the abuse.
Yes, I know: the editorial went on to propose something more limited. But that's not what's important. What's important is that we might be at a turning point. From now on, and for a while, war-mongers, small government zealots and well-to-do hangers-on may first have to prove that their proposals are not like Iraq, Enron, Katrina before anyone will listen to them.