In another nuanced (bulls**t) statement about interrogation techniques, President Obama leaves open the possibility that the people in the Bush Administration who wrote the "torture" memos could be prosecuted.
Are you friggin kidding me??!!
What are you going to prosecute them for? Giving an opinion you disagree with?
Obama won't prosecute any of the CIA interrogators who waterboarded KSM, but he'll leave it up to the Attorney General to see if wants to prosecute the people who gave their opinion as to whether certain techniques were legal?
This is a very dangerous president that Obama will be setting if he allows Attorney General Holder to prosecute the author of those memos. How is a president supposed to ask for the unbiased and open opinions of his staff if that staff knows that what it writes in the memo could lead to prosecution? This isn't members of the Third Reich writing about the systemic plan to exterminate the Jews. These are professional lawyers in the justice department giving their opinion on whether certain interrogation techniques are legally acceptable.
I'm betting there is no "The buck stops here" sign on Obama's desk as there was during President Truman's time in the Oval office.
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Yes by all means, let's begin prosecutions immediately. they will last three years, no one will pay attention to anything else because they will be wall-to-wall covered on all the cable networks, Obama will not be able to pay attention to ANY other issue (hey, maybe that's a positive?), and at the end of the day, some crazy Jihadis will take adventage of our inattention and blow up a couple more buildings.
We'd be crazy NOT to do this.
If the prosecutions start, they are going to haul members of Congress up there and ask them when they got briefed on CIA interrogation techniques. Of course, being politicians, I expect them all to lie and say they knew nothing of it, even after being shown document after document that says they did. Bring it on.
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