Sadly, this ongoing campaign has largely succeeded. Too many news reporters, too many media organizations (including this one), and, finally, too many Americans have been too willing to be duped, too willing to be distracted, too willing to believe the best about this worst of administrations. After all, Americans, we all knew, or thought we knew, don't torture. That's the work of the tyrants, despots, warlords and terrorists we condemn. But not the America of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.