““We want to get in there and manage [their nuclear program]. If we manage it, we can make sure they don’t start testing, or start a war.” In other words, the U.S. is helping the Pakistanis to modernize their nuclear arsenal in hopes that the U.S. will thereby gain a measure of control.”

from Andrew Cockburn’s article link posted above from Counterpunch.com

Yes, let the US start the wars and reap any ‘profits’.

9/11 Commission: Our investigation was “obstructed”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/02/obstruction/

and when you see why Obama won’t investigate torture fully,

The Obama Adminstration is Helping to Upgrade Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons
How the U.S. Has Secretly Backed Pakistan’s Nuclear Program From Day One
http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew06242009.html

you find that Valerie Plame-Wilson’s company, Brewster Jennings, was exposed in 2001 three years before she was ‘outed’ by Robert Novak in 2003,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×2771387

While sorely needed, I think our national experience with such commissions mitigates against expecting the production of anything other than a Kabuki Theater whitewash negotiated behind closed doors… handsomely bound in so-so quality leather, of course.

Rather than that, the tools now exist for those who’ve worked this beat for all of these many years — specialist bloggers, human rights groups, the ACLU, international law experts, agency whistleblowers, U.N. officials… even stifled members of Congress — to instead collaborate on a mixed-media trial-in-absentia project of the Torture 13. Let all of the questions be asked which the political elites will shy away from… show all of the evidence which already exists on the record. File FOIA requests — more in the nature of a demand — and start loudly shaming government agencies which refuse to respond adequately. And include damning, detailed indictments of media outlets like the Washington Post, and enabling ‘media stars’ like Ignatius. Make THAT comprehensive and authoritative account — WWWeb accessible, of course… in multiple languages — become the handsomely-bound-in-leather coffeetable picture book and DVD collection.

I’d start it off, were I doing such a thing, with the compelling human drama of the unlikely partnership-for-justice between Mohammed Jawad’s defense attorney and his former and would-have-been prosecutor, Darrell Vandeveld.

That’s just me. Others will have their own suggestions.

Establishing a truthful narrative of our experiments in torture is absolutely vital for the health of the nation. How are we to govern ourselves if we don’t know where we are or how we got here or what we can expect as consequences?

Recall that we have threatened Britain with reassessing our information sharing with them, if they reveal how we tortured Binyam Mohamed. So the truth no longer sets us free?

No, for our torture team and their apologists, the truth is to be feared. So now that we’ve made truth Public Enemy #1, which way forward?

The people who led us here can only lead us deeper into this god-forsaken Waste Land. They have no intention of forming a more perfect union. We absolutely must out the truth.