Baran: A chance to restore the rule of law
Despite our President-elect’s promises during his campaign that the United States would reject torture on his watch, there are troubling signs that the Obama era will see no prosecutions and zero accountability for officials in the Bush administration.
Speaking Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” President-elect Obama signaled that he intends to “look forward as opposed to looking backwards … to focus on how do we make sure that moving forward we are doing the right thing.” He said he would leave some of these decisions to his attorney general, not ruling out...
Students at Yale and across the country played a huge role in electing President Obama. During the campaign, he urged his supporters to become activists and organizers - not just for the campaign but also to push his administration in the right direction. He is fulfilling his promise through the transition website at change.gov, which provided the forum for us to raise the issue of prosecutions. Together our voices will be heard :)
Get real, Hugh! This "prosecution" is a liberal's wet dream and would waste Obama's time, to say nothing of his political capital. He has better things (I would hope) to do.