The question here is: what do we want as a nation?
When they decide(d) not to take any action, not even remove those one or two unnamed persons from their positions at the CIA (for all that rectal feeding, waterboarding stuff) why do you think any of this story would matter to them at all? It couldn't count any higher in their value system, could it?
Zilch.
This may be just my anguish but from where I stand and see things these tyrannical problems of our Government will only exacerbate, not subside. There is no reason for them to stop. Not until our citizenry becomes as powerful, empowered and weaponized as is the Government today.