Last night on MSNBC's "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann viewers were treated to the always entertaining (and often insightful) former governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura.  Ventura continues his principled stance on the issue of torture -- particularly opposing waterboarding, which he, himself, was subjected to as part of his training in the Navy SEALs. Olbermann, to his credit, has been fairly good about putting aside his Obama-sycophancy to push for investigations and prosecutions of Bush administration officials involved with approving torture.  In this interview, however, he once again betrays his purely partisan motivation behind this position.  At one point (around the 3:40 mark) he completely ignores Ventura's contention that Democrats are reluctant to investigate this issue because they are complicit in it.  This is the point that the mainstream media has decided to completely ignore.  They have decided that the issue is not the possibility that members of both political parties conspired not only to break U.S. and international law but to undermine, and basically destroy, the rule of law under the Constitution. Instead the media far too often focuses on the fake right-left, partisan bickering over who knew what when, or else simply accepts that if there was bipartisan complicity it legitimates the Bush/Cheney/GOP position.