Will Obama Administration Prosecute Bush Officials?

Mike - I have no idea what your retort has to do w/ my original comment. But, uh get a clue buddy. People are often prosecuted without evidence. sometimes even when evidence proves they are not guilty.

Nothing says bipartisanship and bringing the factions together like going after Bush and his cronies. This can't happen...

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Stupid story, George! Pitiful... you are one lousy journalist~!

actually, for once, i think this is a rather important story. not to most americans maybe but perhaps to the rest of the world watching to see if we obey our own laws and international laws. torture is no joke. at least Obama's administration won't allow it. it's all a shame because torture is notorious for not yielding quality results (among other, more grizzly things).

Let's let the international community, preferably Nuerenburgh, give these guys their day in court.

Justice and Rule-of-Law are for "backward looking" people.

"Power does what it wants."

- George Carlin

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

You people are living in fantasy land. They couldn't get sex offender Clinton for lying under oath and they HAD evidence...they can't get Bush/Cheney for starting a war... 2 wars... torture etc. etc. especially without evidence!Get over it. It aint gonna happen!!!
As for 23,000 liberal idiots, on Obama's website....... BIG F'n DEAL!!!

Paul Wall

McCains taking of public funding is money people chose to contribute to the presidential election fund on their tax return. In the past all candidates used this. Obama promised to do this also but went back on his word and chose to take "untraceable" funds with no basic credit card security so no one really knows where his money came from. These public funds are a contribution made freely so it isn't off the tax payers backs like the stimulus package Obama wants to propose will be.

Let's hope not. Then, in 4 years, the next administration will be prosecuting the Obama officials. After all, most of them are Clinton officials.

Badboy:

If having sex with someone who is the age of consent, and the fact that you found Clinton offensive makes Clinton a sex offender, then I guess you are right.

Badboy---there's 57,000,000 of us. lol.

Anyone who cares about this issue should read Jane Meyer's book The Dark Side. those most harmed -- aside from the thug terrorists about whom I care little -- are the agents and managers who refused to go along with the torture initiated by some in the Bush Administration.

The only way to prevent this sort of despicable conduct is to prosecute those who committed the crimes -- and those who ordered and authorized these agents to commit these crimes.

If we let it become a matter of, "they told me I could do this," each administration will be free to violate federal criminal laws. We cannot let this happen.

HH---thanks i stand corrected. i'm glad no money taken from my paycheck was used to fund either candidate. i supported my candidate myself, which you could have done for Senator McCain. the fact is 89% of donations Obama received were from individuals. neo-cons really hate that because in this election the people spoke. and republicans don't fare well when the people speak.

Sounds like somebody (Paul Wall) is blogging for the Obama brigades... You guys learned well from the Bush White House. Are you guys gonna have Air Force employess blog pro government responses on every blog now that your boy is in office. (AP News) I hope your getting a decent wage for your efforts while the rest of us are either fighting to keep our low wage jobs or are having our health benefits eliminated. Oh right, how silly of me, Obama is gonna fix THAT too! You are such fools! I'm NO Republican OR Democrat, yet you have to play the divide and conquer you learned so well from the Bush administration. Here's a thought why don't you get Pelosi and Reid off their butt, and get us out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the rest of the 130 countries we currently are in. Nah, better to spend all of that money overseas and give the middle east a third of the aid we give Israel, maybe with less money and more intervention we can kill our way to "peace." (Obama "anti-war" HA!) For a Democrat you sure like Neocon Republican tactics, and have learned them quite well. If you want a blog to yourself, START one! ABC is a public forum, at least unless you are censored for disliking the "Messiah!" (Doesn't trading one messiah (Bush) for the other (Obama) wear the media out? Hell, they are STILL championing the lost war on a tactic, and innocent civillians. Oh well, in Obama and Bush eyes, WE are the "terrorists!" Might as well cheer our own enslavement.

No.

This has been another edition of easy answers to easy questions.

Next!

The "gravest crime" is the sick hypocrisy of the Liberals and their support for the terrorists who are responsible for the murders of 4,000 American troops in Iraq. The Terrorists don't need Bin Laden when they have OBie.

please!---angry that i went to the source you posted and posted what i found. do you have an opinions about the issue at hand. you're not a republican but you hate democrats (all of them). i can post anywhere that i'm allowed. why don't you go start your own blog elsewhere. i am posting my opnion just as you post yours. oh i get it now, only your opinion counts. only you can speak. everyone who dsiagrees with you has to move on. your mouth is moving more than anyone else's (except Rush Limbaugh). Ditto Rush!

John Kantor---torture is no joke, sir, and you don't have to be a liberal to know that. every civilized nation on earth has signed the Geneva Accords (Geneva Convention). instead of insulting those you disagree with, calling the President-Elect a terrorist ("Terrorists don't need Bin Laden when they have OBie.") and using third-grader insults, why not make the case that the administration is innocent. that way we can have a dialog about the merits of the topic at hand.

"nanny-nanny pooh-pooh", i mean can't we do better than that?

I'm NO Republican OR Democrat
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Yup, those rants confirm you're NObody.

Why no reporter and few blog commenters here mention the deleterious effects on America's future in the world by such prosecution is bizarre.

National security would be effected -

Directly by the neutering of the prosecution and detention of the likes of Khalid Sheik Mohammed - if you don't know who he is - shame on you.

Indirectly by the destruction of the national security apparatus - personnel and techniques that would be revealed by defense attorney leaks to a press deliciously awaiting them

And quite broadly the weakness it would show the world and the divisiveness it would cause both at home and abroad where allies would NEVER share intelligence or detain the enemies of the United States.

Fortunately Obama and his picks for National Security, foreign affairs and justice are not that stupid.

Though the insipidness of his VP cannot be overstated "Vice President-elect Biden, 12/21/08: “[T]he questions of whether or not a criminal act has been committed or a very, very, very bad judgment has been engaged in is—is something the Justice Department decides. Barack Obama and I are—President-elect Obama and I are not sitting thinking about the past. We’re focusing on the future… I’m not ruling [prosecution] in and not ruling it out. I just think we should look forward. I think we should be looking forward, not backwards.”

By the way the Geneva conventions appear to be very vague on the treatment of what earlier statesmen termed spies and saboteurs. I would think the acts and intents of agents of Al Qaeda clear fall into both of those categories. Spies and saboteurs do not expect any pity when they are captured, so while after we agressively determine if they have information that if divulged will protect us from harm, we can then treat them humanely until they may perhaps be executed for their crimes against us.

Is there no common sense left among the media & people in general???
What kind of sense would it make to tell criminals that have a loaded gun pointed at your head still (as they're about to let you go) that as soon as they do we're gonna try to throw you in jail??? That's exactly what we're dealing with here folks... Bush still has control of the military & the government for another 10 days & until he boards that helicopter for that final flight, until Obama's sworn in Bush can still impliment that executive order granting himself absolute control over all branches of government, effectively granting himself dictatorial powers. I think we might wanna just keep this on the down low for another 10 days???

One clarification - defense attorney leaks of national security in the context of terrorists receiving all the rights of citizens at trial.

In the context of prosecuting Bush and staff, there may be Congressional and Justice dept aides and clerks to judges might share our nations secrets as symbolic acts of "global justice"

Thanks Chapman but waiting 10 days will not stop the s--tstorm of all the effects on our future I have just delineated!!

Looking at these previous posts, it seems people are off their meds! Does anybody actually address the topic of the blog post, or do people just come on here to service there own egos? From the way this is going I'd suggest the latter. If you want rational discourse, this place is not for you, WOW! People calm the F down! Breathe! Take a pill. Do something. Do you guys talk to you kids this way? Jeez! Forgive me while I rejoin the rational members of society.

robert b---wow, certainly not my reading of the Geneva Conventions. al qaeda are spies and saboteurs? certainly blew their cover on 911!

i don't think America enhances its standing in the world by using torture and having secret Stalin-esque show trials in remote locations.

in september somethink like 70 of these individuals were released from gitmo after having no trial or any evidence brought against them.

there's no doubt that there are criminals at Guantanamo Bay. but isn't the use of evidence important when you have been held for 7 years with no charges?

i guess torture and infinite confinement without charge is one of those things you have to endure to realize it's not too cool.

"i don't know what torture is but i'll know it when i feel it"? then torture never exists. the average american has no idea how fun waterboarding can be. and what is sad is that torture yields abyssmal results. so you mangle someone or attempt to drown them and still get no relevent information.