Bush = Torture = Prosecute

The Senate Torture report exposes the Bush Administration for what is is, Anti-Constitution, Pro-torture radicals. Just because your own counsel gives you the thumbs up to use "illegal tortures devised by Chinese agents during the Korean War", that does not mean they are lawful:

"These top officials ignored warnings from lawyers in every branch of the armed forces that they were breaking the law, subjecting uniformed soldiers to possible criminal charges and authorizing abuses that were not only considered by experts to be ineffective, but were actually counterproductive.

The officials then issued legally and morally bankrupt documents to justify their actions, starting with a presidential order saying that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to prisoners of the “war on terror” — the first time any democratic nation had unilaterally reinterpreted the conventions."

When rounding up all this criminals and War Crimes enablers, don't stop at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his legal counsel, William J. Haynes and other top officials, including the former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and David Addington, go right to the top.

via Andrew Sullivan:

The NYT takes a stand, the only credible legal stand, given where we now are:

"A prosecutor should be appointed to consider criminal charges against top officials at the Pentagon and others involved in planning the abuse."

That must include the commander-in-chief and his vice-president. This is where the criminality came from and it's unjust to punish people down the line more than those at the very top. If Obama wants to avoid even the appearance of retribution, he should first appoint a Truth Commission of independent, outside but experienced public officials from both parties - along the lines of the 9/11 Commission - to establish the full facts of the past seven years. In my view, it should be restricted to war crimes alone - far graver than the question of warrantless wire-tapping.

Prosecute them all!

Source: NYT