Biden Not Ruling Out Prosecuting Bush Officials For Prisoner Abuse

"I think we should be looking forward, not backwards"

Then why did the Allies bother with the Nuremberg Tribunals?

Justice ALWAYS "looks backwards". If you refuse to look at the recent "past", you deny justice and confirm that the US is no longer a nation governed by the rule of law.

Why is the incoming administration in such a hurry to excuse war crimes, crimes against peace and gross violations of the Constitution, unless they are complicit?

Holder is compromised and will never pursue justice against Bush/Cheney. Biden knows this, so his answer is disingenuous.

Say goodbye to your Republic.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/confess/
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/forgive-and-forgetforget/

Biden also knows that 9/11 was an "inside job".

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/movers-and-shakers/

We kill Millions of uborn every year, yet we are talking about prosecuting people who may or may not have tortured people who were out to kill americans. Give e a break! I say torture the hell out of them if it keeps our country safe! The animals do not give a crap about human life!

I say prosecute who you want. Then dissolve Gitmo, and bring all those poor detainees to the US and release them all in NYC and DC to show the world just how compassionate, and stupid, we have all become.

Having just seen Frost/Nixon I was reminded of the high crimes he got away with... Pardon by Ford and allowed to go free I was strongly against. But over time I reluctantly supported Ford in his action so that we could get over the LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE. Well folks, I was wrong. Nixon should have been held accountable for his decisions and actions and prosecuted. And if need be, jailed. WHY have I changed my view? Because if he had Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld and others would not have been so cavalier about our Constitution, our Checks and Balances ,and lying to the America. people. This Cabal prosecuted a war that we were the aggressor for the first time in our glorious cause called the American Dream. The Shinning City on the Hill that Reagan spoke of is tainted. WELL ENOUGH - The chance to hold politicians accountable may have been missed in 1974… NOT this time.. This Cabal gets charged, prosecuted and if need be, jailed. NOBODY is above the law… The King of England* clearly learned this principle in 1776, and in 1865 with the Union’s whole sale defeat of the SOUTH - cemented this principle. Hey maybe Kenneth Star can work or their defense as he tries to take fundamental rights away from a segment of the California population.

* As an aside in 1776 the King of England was George the III. Is it not ironic that George W Bush is the President to have the name George. Yep folks, GW is our George the III… Jefferson was right, a little Revolution every 30 or 40 years is good for the country

No question Bush et al should be prosecuted in my opinion. As to the poster with a very short memory, Clinton left us a huge surplus. Its Bush who is leaving us a deficit that is even bigger than Clinton's surplus.

Biden needs to be prosecuted for being mentally deficient.

I think it is time to hide Biden like for weeks at a time during the campaign. Barack leaves town and ther goes Biden looking like an alzheimer candidate. How can such a small man accomplish control over his state and probably pass his seat off to his son soon. Americans give Congress a single digit acceptability rating and re-elect 95% of them. The education system in this country needs help.

Prosecute anyone and everyone who broke the law. Unfortunately, the statute of limitations will have run on most of these heinous acts. As for Bush and Cheney-no pensions, no federal funds for staff or office, and no secret service protection.
P.S. To Sluggo- someone who uses this name probably shouldn't criticize anyone for 'mental deficiency'.

Marcus, sorry I forgot to mention you. YOu trulyl are an anal rectal orfice, homophobe, and illiterate. Where is B. Frank mentioned in the main post?

Bush and his administration and his band of Wall Street thieves should be tried as criminals and traitors and be executed. This would be the most noble act to be carried out in the history of our nation and the entire world would thank us and respect us once again.

In my estimation, water boarding would be very very very very very very very very very bad judgment.

Now, whether that's enough very's to actually constitute torture, I think that the Justice Department will have to determine.

Biden knows more about foreign policy than George W.Bush and Cheney do about obeserving the law.

The above poster is right about Nixon.He should've gone to jail to deter future political corruption .

In fact I propose both Cheney and Rumsfeld being tried and send to a federal supermax prison -- they can then share the same cell and remenisce about Abu Graib.

Biden said this morning on your news show that "the Democrats are inheriting the largest deficits in history." Just how much of the deficit was already in place when Clinton left office. It ain't all a Republican Problem.
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To bill bonner - you mistake the facts. Remember under Clinton we have a net profit during the last two years of his administration and were reducing the national debt. It was about $4.75 trillion when he left. Before the current economic crisis it was about $11 trillion. I hope you do some research before posting on this again.

Beto : You are operating under a political myth. There was no "net profit" during the Clinton years, the national debt increased each and every year he was in office. There was never a balanced budget, there was never a surplus. There was fancy accounting, involving taking money from the social security trust fund, but even if we never had to make up for that.. we still spent more than we took in.

If he wants to start prosecutions, perhaps he can start with the treasonous comments of Terry Mc Aulliffe not too long after 9/11 concerning the Commander in-Chief, or he can also demand Main Justice open a malfeasance prosecution of the Clinton Administration for doing NOTHING during the 1990s as American Blood flowed from one slaughtered after another for eight long, treacherous years. We could also venture into the obstructions of the intelligence community under the Toricelli principle. But I'll stop here, because Democrats are held accountable for NOTHING, and Republicans are blamed for everything. If Clinton had taken action 9/11 probably never would have happened because we would have rocked their world. The insult of this Democratic Party boggles the thinking mind.

Largest deficit in history is a direct result in a military that was largely deficit in real capability and morale for eight years; combined with a defense budget cut 40 percent and a demonstrated threat that bled out Americans increasingly over those eight years to include the very first World Trade Center bombing. Biden must think some of us forget things. His lies are an apostasy and an insult to statesmenship, but there agin goes the inbreeding of the left. One really good thing is that they now are running the show.

I prayed for and predicted a left landslide, which was obvious an outcome based on all the media programming of the voter for eight years. Now that same voter will actually see what and who they are.

We shall see just how neato, affluentm arrogant and classy and intellectual these self-appointed wisdom, mature and graduated cultural democrats are.

The corruption laden games have already started and they are going for the prosecutor's throat in typical inverted focus to avoide a real depe look at them. Their boy in Illionis did nothing, he was framed, it was a set up because he supported the poor folk, right?

You out there who are cutting down Biden are missing the point of it all, or trying to change the subject in point here. Stick to the facts. This is not about Biden and not about Republicans, Democrats, or othercrats, and you know it as well as I do. It's about Bush and certain of his failed die hard cabinet members, pitifully unethical high level supporters and catastrophic policies and cheatin' ways. And the question is what to do with Bush and the rest of them. I say if not tar, feather and banish them to an iceberg, at very least fully investigate and prosecute them, if it comes to that, as it seems pretty obvious by now to more and more Americans that it will. Get off your high horses and help Obama and Biden save the country, for crying out loud!

George Bush is the President that has presided over this mess and he gets the blame

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Gotta love the liberal point of view....

So, your ready to apply the same standard to Obama ??????

For you information, for the past 23 months, DEMOCRATS have controlled the complete legislative agenda!!! NOT BUSH!!!

Barney Frank should be removed from all commitees!!! He went out of his way to force this current mess by insisting that we make sure "everyone" is ENTITLED to a house. EVEN IF THEY CANNOT POSSIBLY AFFORD IT!!!

Now, he does not even have the b@lls to stand up and admit his part in this. With Barney its ALWAYS someone else's fault or problem... NEVER HIS!

I am completely frustrated and angered by this. The last two years, Pelosi took impeachment off the table. In the next few months, the despicable acts of this administration will be exposed even in more depth. To not prosecute and take a stand leaves a tremendous gap in credibility, as well as encourages the next admin to violate constitutional rights.

In addition, we can move forward on change and transformation by holding this current admin accountable. Prosecuting for crimes can bring a healing in the nation as opposed to once again just hiding burrowing it in the closet.

Shame on Obama and Biden for not prosecuting. They will regret it.

"It's about Bush and certain of his failed die hard cabinet members, pitifully unethical high level supporters"
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Unethical....hmm.....Exactly what fantasy world are you living in???

Every single presidency has had ehtics issues. EVERY ONE! Your "messiah" is no different. He has some brewing before he even takes office for cryin outloud.

Thanks alot ABC news for censoring my posts so frequently. You are trying to control the media and the people by doing this. If a comment does not "fit in" with your articles point( and of course it must agree with you) It is censored or even taken out completely. This is sad that ABC news must do this, because they are trying to be an unbiased and valid news source.......well I have news for you guys ABC, you are just as bad as FOX news- which is the absolute worst news source known to humankind. I will not come to your low-end news source unless it is to write an article like this. You are pathetic, and should take comments OFF of your site ENTIRELY because you are manipulating news and what people are really saying. Great work geniuses.

I would go cautiously down any path like this although I have no use for Rumsfeld and the job he did. It's an open ended can of worms and showing the difference between stupidity, arrogance and criminal intent is a tough call most times. Are we going to just statement and distract this government from really important functions while we go after this vendetta. Perhaps so.

this continues what democrats are good at. They are great at investigations to cover up their wrong doings. Obama even investigated himself

Crimes committed by Cheney and Rumsfield should be prosecuted. Cheney admitted publicly to approving waterboarding; this is illegal, so he should be charged. This is simple and must be done if we really are a nation of law.
To continue to state that this has these actions have "made the world a safer place" is proving to be wrong in light of recent events in Gaza. Cheney and Rumsfield and Bush are dead wrong.