If Rahm Emanuel is right when he says this on ABC yesterday:
"Yeah, but those who devised the policy, he believes that they were, should not be prosecuted either," Emanuel said."And it's not the place that we go, and as he said in that letter, and I would really recommend people look at the full statement, not the letter, the statement, and that second paragraph: 'This is not a time for retribution. It's a time for reflection. It's not a time to use our energy and our time in looking back and in a sense of anger and retribution.'
Then it appears Obama doesn't want to go after the higher-ups.
Ok, if that's accurate, then I'm officially furious. Politicians are emphatically not above the law, and the laws and treaties we signed said we would not torture.
Firedoglake has a petition demanding that AG Holder designate a special prosecutor to investigate torture.
Posted by Linkmeister at April 20, 2009 08:30 AM | TrackBack