Pyrrhic Torture Trials
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 1st, 2009 5:37 am by HL
Pyrrhic Torture Trials
WASHINGTON — Should Bush administration officials be put on trial for crimes such as authorizing torture? Personally, I’m just relieved to have this crowd heading out of office and their policies — on torture, on indefinite detention, on warrantless wiretapping, on overweening executive power — soon to be inoperative. But the imminent arrival of the Obama administration has sparked a renewed clamor for criminal investigation and prosecution among some quarters on the left. Vice President Cheney stoked the flames with an ABC interview in which he was typically unrepentant about the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and particularly explicit about his involvement.
