Minutes after a U.S. Senate intelligence panel released details of the CIA's torture of terrorism suspects, President Barack Obama suggested the country should move on.
The U.S. Department of Justice, which has the power to bring criminal charges, looks set to follow his word.
Criminal prosecutions of those who ran secret prisons and "enhanced interrogations" between 2002 and 2006 look unlikely despite renewed demands by civil rights advocates. So do efforts to hold to account politicians who authorized the CIA actions.