WASHINGTON (PNN) - September 29, 2012 - An article buried on the bottom of page 13 of The New York Times on Friday revealed that Mitt Romney’s national security team has recommended to him that he rescind illegitimate President Obama’s executive order barring torture, including waterboarding.

The Times article, by Charlie Savage, also notes that Romney last December said he didn’t think waterboarding was torture and that he would use techniques - isn’t that a creepy word - that Obama refuses to use and that are not allowed by the Army manual.

This puts Romney squarely back in the sadistic Bush-Cheney camp.

It is noteworthy that many of the people on Romney’s national security team actually served in the Bush-Cheney regime and backed waterboarding and other kinds of brutalities.

This is not a lovely glimpse into what a Romney presidency would look like.

In fact, it’s a horrifying flashback, and a reminder that the neocons and Cheneyites are just biding their time, waiting for their opportunity to abuse power once more.

This is what happens when there is impunity, as Professor Al McCoy of the University of Wisconsin argues. By not prosecuting Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld or Alberto Gonzales and other senior thug officials who designed the torture policy, and by not prosecuting CIA agents who actually did the waterboarding, illegitimate President Obama has left the door open for more torturers.

They’re lining up to get back in to power.