Read Glenn Greenwald, Adam Serwer, and Andrew Sullivan on the Obama Administration’s disgusting, yet predictable decision not to prosecute anyone responsible for the various war crimes committed during the Bush Administration—crimes committed in the name of making us “free.” Of course, as Serwer notes, not everyone got away:
John Kiriakou, the former CIA official who went public about interrogation techniques like waterboarding, is being prosecuted for disclosing classified information for allegedly assisting defense attorneys who were seeking to identify interrogators who may have tortured their clients. You can torture a detainee in your custody to death and get away with it. You just can’t talk about it.
Frankly, I can’t blame the President all that much. I mean, if he started indicting government officials just because they committed murder, he’d have to indict himself! And how would that look?
