Pyrrhic Torture Trials
By Ruth Marcus
WashPost
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Should Bush administration officials be put on trial for crimes such as authorizing torture?
Personally, I'm just relieved to have this crowd heading out of office and its policies -- on torture, on indefinite detention, on warrantless wiretapping, on overweening executive power -- soon to be inoperative.
But the imminent arrival of the Obama administration has sparked a renewed clamor for criminal investigation and prosecution in some quarters on the left. Vice President Cheney stoked the flames with an ABC interview in which he was typically unrepentant about the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and particularly explicit about his own involvement.
Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report concluding that Donald Rumsfeld's decision as defense secretary to authorize "aggressive interrogation techniques" was "a direct cause of detainee abuse" at Guantanamo Bay.
(More here.)
WashPost
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Should Bush administration officials be put on trial for crimes such as authorizing torture?
Personally, I'm just relieved to have this crowd heading out of office and its policies -- on torture, on indefinite detention, on warrantless wiretapping, on overweening executive power -- soon to be inoperative.
But the imminent arrival of the Obama administration has sparked a renewed clamor for criminal investigation and prosecution in some quarters on the left. Vice President Cheney stoked the flames with an ABC interview in which he was typically unrepentant about the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and particularly explicit about his own involvement.
Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report concluding that Donald Rumsfeld's decision as defense secretary to authorize "aggressive interrogation techniques" was "a direct cause of detainee abuse" at Guantanamo Bay.
(More here.)
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