War crimes (again and again)

Today's big story is the NY Times' piece revealing that the CIA deep-sixed two torture videos it had been keeping in order to "protect" some of its employees from "legal problems."

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program, according to current and former government officials.

The legal problems, of course, were war crimes trials, and the destruction of the tapes should be prosecuted as obstruction of justice. It won't be, of course, because the Republicans love war crimes (as long as they're the ones committing them) and the Democrats don't have the spine to go after someone at the CIA, much less the President who ought to be tried for war crimes and, if convicted, executed. (I note that I'm not usually in favor of capital punishment, but I'm willing to make an exception in this case).