Listening to the foo-fah on MSNBC about the failure of the administration to prosecute either the agents of the CIA who performed "enhanced interrogation" or those who authorized it--torture
Realising that the Dept. of Justice is responsible for investigations and decisions on whether and whom they should prosecute---anyone remember the rules going back to the Watergate investigations that the DOJ was independent of the White House and the president's offices so as NOT TO BE POLITICIZED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ITS DUTIES---and isn't that exactly the meat of this issue---that the Bush appointees to DOJ were political hacks and eroded these rules with their memos of opinion on the legality of various acts of torture?? It took a while but Nixon and the plumbers were brought to justice.
Honestly. Obama, his cabinet, and his advisers have to solve a lot of things before prosecution of Bush administration torturers hits the main course on their plates. So let's let DOJ do its thing now that we have a REAL Attorney-General and I bet we see justice prevail in the next couple of years. Congress should work on the bills needed to get us moving ahead economically and also let DOJ do its job. We want to see the truth and let the perpetrators be found guilty---we don't need a partisan side-show.
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