Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, Sen. Udall claims

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22. Obama rejected calls to prosecute Bush administration officials

This is the reason things are FUBAR.





Obama rejected calls to prosecute Bush administration officials for their role in the torture program, and the Justice Department dropped all charges against lower-ranking CIA agents in 2012.

The press reports suggest three levels of criminality on the part of the CIA: the torture program itself, whose authors include President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and other top officials of the Bush administration; the suppression of the Panetta report, a cover-up carried out under Brennan and the Obama administration; and the illegal spying on Senate staffers, also carried out under Brennan and Obama.

The response of the corporate-controlled American media has been, for the most part, to ignore the affair and obscure its significance. This is not because, as the New York Times coverage suggests, the details are complicated and the issues murky. On the contrary, while the maneuvers of the CIA in this matter are complex, the illegal and unconstitutional character of the agency’s actions is evident and obvious.