To Charge or Not To Charge?
That is the question. I am leaning towards the Washington Independent’s suggestion:
The pressure is ratcheting up on President-elect Barack Obama to do something as soon as he takes office about the Bush administration’s years of law-breaking.
The lawyer and writer Scott Horton, in an excellent feature in the December issue of Harper’s, lays out the Obama administration’s options. Horton points out that there is a long litany of potential crimes the new administration could go after -– from using the Justice Dept. for political purposes to issuing no-bid military contracts to corrupt companies.
But the most obvious crime that’s prime for prosecution is officially sanctioned torture.
We must tell the world that NO ONE is above the law. Not even the President of the United States of America.
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