President Obama will soon be reaping the harvest he sowed by not pursuing the Bush Admin. criminals

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105. Under our system of government you investigate first

The problem is that simply investigating was taken off the table.

At least one prominent mainstream Democrat has noted, it's not kosher for the POTUS to publicly announce that the DOJ won't be looking at the previous administration to see if crimes were committed.

I agree with those who say it's both wrong and a mistake to politicize the Justice Department and use it as a tool for revenge or to gain advantage.

But, imo, it is equally wrong to hamstring the DOJ so as to gain political advantage by looking conciliatory, reasonable, etc., etc.

To say that the whole "war crime" thing is a farce is too simplistic an argument imo.

It's the whole web of criminality that needs to be looked at. Look at former AG Gonzales. The main is practically hangdog in expression at times. Even he knows.

The political atmosphere would have accepted some low key non-partisan investigations, that were relatively narrow in focus, regarding the Bush administration malfeasances that were especially prominent and frightening.
The administration, imo, prominently and publicly gave that away in the expectation that they would be owed.

That was a tragic misjudgment, on several levels.

Now, today, we are left with the situation that any major investigation looks like a witch hunt.