Obama Would "Immediately Review" Potential Of Crimes In Bush White House
This is why I have so much faith in this guy:
Attytood's Will Bunch has a new interview with Barack Obama:
Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.
Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."
He recognises that "a partisan witch hunt" would be unhelpful, but nevertheless sees that it is in nobody's interests that the crimes of the Bush era should go unpunished.
And there have been crimes. Torturing people is a crime. It's too much to hope that Bush himself will one day stand in a dock, but he deserves to if he wilfully authorised torturing people.
And that is what he appeared to admit to recently. He even had the stupidity to appear proud of what he had done. That's simply moronic.
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