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It will never happen because the prosecution would logically include Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and some legislators. I don't see a Republican administration
by logn 12y ago
It will never happen because the prosecution would logically include Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and some legislators. I don't see a Republican administration prosecuting them because of loyalty, and I don't see a Democratic one doing that because I suspect Pelosi and Obama could be prosecuted as well (if new evidence comes to light). And without going after the very highest level offenders, you're throwing the CIA under the bus, and that won't end well.
- wavefunction 12y agoObama probably would not be part of the group but Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein would. Jay Rockefeller as well. These three very senior leaders in the Democratic party have sat on the Foreign Intelligence Committee during this period of torture and while supposedly not completely in-the-loop approved of what they did know of.
- trhway 12y ago>Obama probably would not be part of the group Obama is the president of the country blatantly, in the open, violating Geneva Conventions - Gitmo, drone strikes. Not that anybody, who matters, cares though.
- pmoriarty 12y agoBut didn't you hear? He "wants" to close Gitmo. He only has the best of intentions, but darn it, those obstructionist Republicans always stand in the way.
- wavefunction 12y agoI care, but we're talking about holding people responsible specifically for the use of torture during the Bush Administration.
- tripzilch 12y agoYeah but Obama was just following orders, y'know.
- tehwalrus 12y agoIt speaks volumes that it is up to the executive whether to prosecute former executives.
- pfortuny 12y agoYes, talking about Montesquieu and all that division of powers... What a joke.