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When Cass Sunstein, a law professor at Harvard and the University of Chicago, and a legal adviser for Sen. Barack Obama, told a packed crowd at the Netroots convention that the next president should let the Bush administration’s potential war crimes go unpunished, he was met with a chorus of boos and angry rejoinders that the president and his Cabinet cannot remain above the law.

Since then, legal experts have generally agreed that the next administration is unlikely to prosecute Bush administration officials for authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists — no matter how many laws the government officials broke. But that hasn’t placated many others, like George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, or the constitutional lawyer and author Glenn Greenwald, who argue that holding policy-makers accountable for their actions is critical to restoring the reputation of the United States — not to mention respect for the rule of law.