I said it would never happen, but maybe ...

[Meeker Morgan]

:)

Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_torture.html

Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."

The question was inspired by a recent report by ABC News, confirmed by the Associated Press, that high-level officials including Vice President Dick Cheney and former Cabinet secretaries Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld, among others, met in the White House and discussed the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques on terrorism suspects.

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[mike_c]

1. if there is even the whisper of a hint that ANY candidate will seek...

...war crimes investigations of Bush administration members-- something credible-- I will become an instant zealot for that candidate. I will send them money. I will canvas for them. I will do anything I can to support their campaign. Putting Bush on and his top cabinet cronies on trial is the ONLY way to move America forward after the last seven years.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Don't Get Your Hopes Up

Bush will pardon 'em all. He can't pardon himself, but he's been careful about keeping himself safe by operating through henchmen.

There will be no war crimes trials in The Hague - on a personal level, I think that it's the just thing to do, but that would piss off too many Americans.