So the proof is in the pudding and the destruction of our foundational principle that our form of governance rests upon the rule of law is now nearly
complete.
Turley: Obama 'owns' Bush 'war crimes' if he looks the other
way
President George W. Bush's offhand acknowledgement in an interview Sunday with Fox's Brit Hume that he personally authorized the waterboarding of
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may create thorny legal and moral problems for incoming President Barack Obama.
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Monday, "We now have President Bush speaking quite candidly that he was
in the loop, we have Dick Cheney who almost bragged about it. The question for Barack Obama is whether he wants to own part of this by looking the
other way."
Obama told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, "We have not made final decisions, but my instinct is for us to focus on how do we make sure
that moving forward we are doing the right thing. That doesn't mean that if somebody has blatantly broken the law, that they are above the law. But
my orientation's going to be to move forward."
In other words, he intends to look the other way if he can get away with it. 
We already know what Congress' position has been:
Conyers Explains Why He Hasn't Impeached
And we know what Cheney thinks:
See also Democrats in Congress Pick Bush Over Human Rights
Groups
I wonder how long it really will take for the bulk of Obama supporters to wipe the unquestioning adoration from their eyes before they realize their
agent of change is only a marginal difference from much of the nonsense suffered by this nation over the last eight years?
Good luck America. We are gonna need it, in my view.
[edit on 14-1-2009 by loam]
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