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Jake Stern

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3. Were Shrub or Dick Cheney

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:29 AM

May 2020

or John Woo (author of the infamous memo green lighting torture) held accountable by the succeeding Democratic administration? Were ANY Bush officials held accountable by the Obama Administration, despite some pretty in-your-face malfeasance?

Hate on me for saying but it appears that Dems just do not have the stomach for going after officials from previous administrations for their activities. We'd rather "look forward" and let sleeping dogs lie.

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Assuming there's a free and fair election in November, and [View all] cilla4progress May 2020 OP

Depends on many things including control of congress , Trump/Pence pardoning each other JI7 May 2020 #1

Depends on how much of the United States remains ... Kablooie May 2020 #2

+1, uponit7771 May 2020 #4

My expectation is Trump spends most of it golfing, but McConnell does the damage Amishman May 2020 #7

Were Shrub or Dick Cheney Jake Stern May 2020 #3

+1 I'm sorry to say you're right. We are afraid to call crimes crimes. lagomorph777 May 2020 #10

Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Let us not "go gently into that dark night"* abqtommy May 2020 #5

That's quite an assumption! kentuck May 2020 #6

As my prosecutor buddy always says melm00se May 2020 #8

depends on outcome in House and Senate as well as the state and local elections, a massive beachbumbob May 2020 #9