According to the Washington Times,
President Obama’s choice to run the Justice Department has assured senior Republican senators that he won’t prosecute intelligence officers or political appointees who were involved in the Bush administration’s policy of “enhanced interrogations.”
Missouri Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond said he was given assurances by Eric Holder that there would be no prosecutions. Liberal pundits and bloggers are said to be skeptical about the assurance, as the Washington Times is a “Moonie” paper.
I take little comfort in that. I’ve been suspicious from November 4 forward that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Ashcroft/Gonzales would get a free ride from Obama. They can say anything they want about it, but it comes down to the U.S. having a bipartisan foreign policy. Bush didn’t pardon anybody for a reason. He knew he didn’t have to.
No comment yet from Holder. But if there is to be prosecution for war crimes, it appears it will only come about due to pressure from citizens of this country, or from United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak.
It would indeed be humorous to know that these above-named parties could not leave the country for fear of being arrested – aka – the Pinochet treatment.
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…assurances by Eric Holder that there would be no prosecutions.
A backhanded swipe. There is nothing there, no such case would amount to anything. It is like saying, “they are guilty, but we won’t prosecute.” Cheap.
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Thanks for the definitive word. In the meantime, I’ll wait for Nowak to proceed. US officials are not very good at examining their own actions.
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Speaking of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder:
Eric Holder is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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