The Wall Street Journal Online has an article today on the possiblity of prosecutions of the people who allowed the intense interrogation of terrorists under the Bush Administration. The lead paragraph in the article states:
"Mark down the date. Tuesday, April 21, 2009, is the moment that any chance of a new era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended. By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret."
Up until now, a presidential administration has never criminalized the decisions of the previous administration. In our country the law is not supposed to change according to who is in power. President Obama has stated that he will not encourage the prosecution of individual CIA agents, but he has invited investigations against Republican legal advisers who offered their best advice at the request of CIA officials.
The interesting part of this is that the Senate was informed about these interrogations when they were going on. That is on the record. It is going to be interesting to see how they excuse themselves from being part of what was happening. It is also interesting that these interrogations kept our country safe from further attacks. Is the Obama Administration going to make us less safe in order to gain political points?
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