Wow....Such Justice.
Of course, The president's job is not to "do something" about the last administration,
as that is not part of his job description to render justice, it is the job of the Justice Department, which once Obama appointed Holder as its head, is supposed to work independently from the President.
Breaking on Rachel - Holder considering torture investigation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5500285And as Holder said he would do.....
Holder will make the case that the Justice Department needs to be above reproach in terms of being politicized, a nod to the era of Gonzales, who resigned after accusations that the department had improperly fired at least nine U.S. attorneys for political reasons, as well as allowed politically biased hiring practices to take hold within the department.
Holder noted in his testimony that he will work to restore the credibility of the Justice Department…http://sweetness-light.com/archive/holder-waterboarding-is-tortureThree Bush administration lawyers who signed memos, John C. Yoo, Jay S. Bybee and Steven G. Bradbury, are the subjects of a coming report by the Justice Department’s ethics office that officials say is sharply critical of their work. The ethics office has the power to recommend disbarment or other professional penalties or, less likely, to refer cases for criminal prosecution.
The administration has also not ruled out prosecuting anyone who exceeded the legal guidelines, and
officials have discussed appointing a special prosecutor. One option might be giving the job to John H. Durham, a federal prosecutor who has spent 15 months investigating the C.I.A.’s destruction of videotapes of harsh interrogations.
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Other investigations promise to keep the issue alive. The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to release its own report after two years of looking at the military’s use of harsh interrogation methods. And the Democratic chairmen of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees are pushing for a commission to look into the matter. At the same time, the administration faces pressure from abroad. Manfred Nowak, the United Nations’ chief official on torture, told an Austrian newspaper that as a party to the international Convention against Torture, the United States was required to investigate credible accusations of torture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/politics/21intel.html?_r=2&hp
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