Countdown: Olbermann Special Comment on Torture Prosecution - 4/16

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 05:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbOExb5cdZw   Posted on YouTube: April 17, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 17, 2009 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 6812

 
MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 15 April 2009: On official torture legal memos, Obama turns his back on the rule of law, according to Olbermann.

KO: "But, Mr. President, when you say we must come together on behalf of our common future you are entirely correct. We must focus on getting things right in the future, as to opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past. That means prosecuting ALL those involved in the Bush administration's torture of prisoners, even if the results are nominal punishments, or merely new laws. Your only other option is to let this sit and fester, indefinitely.

Because, sir, someday there will be another Republican President, or even a Democrat, just as blind as Bush, to ethics and this country's moral force. And he will look back to what you did about Mr. Bush, or what you did not do, and he will see precedent, or as Mr. Cheney saw, he will see how to not to get caught next time.

Prosecute, Mr. President. Even if you get not one conviction you will still have accomplished good for generations unborn. Merely by acting you will deny a further wrong, that this construction will enter the history books: 'Torture was legal. It worked. It saved the country. The end.'

This must not be."