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Matthew Yglesias: Justice for War Criminals?
Balloon Juice: “More Difficult”
DownWithTyranny!: Getting To The Bottom Of Bush Regime Perfidy-- H.R. 104
Blogometer: 1/12: Pressure From The Left
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Justice for War Criminals?
Matthew Yglesias —
... Satyam Khanna rounds up the somewhat contradictory statements from Barack Obama and his appointees as to whether or not there should be any kind of prosecutions or investigations for the serious crimes committed during the Bush years. Obama leaves the door open to investigations but his most recent statement places emphasis on a desire to “move forward” and the fact that he doesn’t want intelligence operatives to “suddenly feel like they’ve got to spend all their time looking over their shoulders and lawyering.” ...
“More Difficult”
Balloon Juice —
... think it would be appropriate for folks to generate the appropriate outrage to force Obama to keep his word on this. We didn’t set the 100 day mark for this- he did. Unlike other situations, this is not based on speculation from an unnamed source in the WSJ- this is straight from the horse’s mouth (and no, McCain campaign, I am not calling Obama a horse), and echoes the rhetoric of the craziest of the crazy at NRO.
Also of note, this:
Q: The most popular question on your own website ...
Getting To The Bottom Of Bush Regime Perfidy-- H.R. 104
DownWithTyranny! —
... and move on with his own programs. If the former regimistas are charged with crimes, that will dominate all political debate and the mass media. His line on predictable line on Bush (from his appearance this morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulos): "[W]e need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.” Yesterday Dalia Lithwick presented a different perspective in a very powerful NY Times ...
1/12: Pressure From The Left
Blogometer —
... Obama to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush admin.'s controversial intelligence-gathering policies. While Obama appears unwilling to make such a promise, lefty bloggers ...
Will We Get Accountability? Obama's Reply to Blogger Bob Fertik's Special Prosecutor Question
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... " where people can post items of particular concern for the Obama team to review. Fertik's question got so much attention and approval from other users on the site that it made its way to the top of the Change.gov list and onto the Sunday talk shows, finally garnering this response from Obama when George Stephanopoulos asked the question directly :"We're still evaluating how we're going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions and so forth. And obviously we're going to be looking at past practices and I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other ...
Sen. Bond: Holder 'Gave Me Assurances He's Looking Forward' On Torture Prosecutions
TPMMuckraker —
... ." And while President Obama has voiced a preference for looking "forward as opposed to looking backwards" when it comes to potential prosecutions, Holder's unequivocal statement on waterboarding raised the ...
