mike rogers - the nonstop apologist for war and domestic oppression - argues that releasing the torture report will lead to violence and death. of course what might be irritating to rogers is that such violence would be a response to learning the truth about something, namely the values and identity of people such as rogers. what really gets under rogers' skin isn't any old violence; it's violence that he himself helped make completely justifiable by facts. it's like his office got bombed by the reality of who mike rogers himself is. it's like the terrorist blowing himself up in mike rogers' office with a suicide vest is mike rogers' double, from a universe in which each of us has double, but where our doubles speak the truth. that kind of violence is peculiarly irritating to mike rogers.