$5M of Your Taxes Paid Private Legal Fees?

That's according to former U.S. officials.

The CIA agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for two contractors who were the architects of the agency's interrogation program and personally conducted dozens of waterboarding sessions on terror detainees, former U.S. officials said.

The secret agreement means taxpayers are paying to defend the men in a federal investigation over an interrogation tactic the U.S. now says is torture. The deal is even more generous than the protections the agency typically provides its own officers, giving the two men access to more money to finance their defense.

I don't care about your position on waterboarding. You have to be crazy to believe that your tax dollars should be used for the legal protection of a private entity. What's better is that in this particular investigation, your tax dollars are paying both the prosecution and the defense.

I feel like such a pawn.