Bush & Co.: Why are they too big to jail? (Amy Goodman)

[struggle4progress]

February 5, 2009

... There will be many histories written about the Bush administration. What will they use for source material? The Bush White House was sued for losing e-mails, and for skirting laws intended to protect public records. A federal judge ordered White House computers scoured for e-mails just days before Bush left office. Three hundred million e-mails reportedly went to the National Archives, but 23 million e-mails remain "lost." Vice President Dick Cheney left office in a wheelchair due to a back injury suffered when moving boxes out of his office. He has not only hobbled a nation in his attempt to sequester information — he hobbled himself. Cheney also won court approval to decide which of his records remain private ...

Legal writer Karen Greenberg notes in Mother Jones magazine, "The list of potential legal breaches is, of course, enormous; by one count, the administration has broken 269 laws, both domestic and international" ...

Millions have served time in U.S. prisons for crimes that fall far short of those attributed to the Bush administration. Some criminals, it seems, are like banks judged too big to fail, too big to jail, too powerful to prosecute ...

Without thorough, aggressive, public investigations of the full spectrum of crimes alleged of the Bush administration, there will be no accountability, and the complete record of this chapter of U.S. history will never be written.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-ed_agoodman_0205feb05,0,319771.story

[Demeter]

1. They Aren't, and They Know It

Why else destroy the economy, as a twofer--maximum looting followed by maximum cover. The real question is: why haven't these idiot crooks left the country? what are they waiting for? A pardon?