hypocritexposer
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Weren't you Obama voters promised transparency? Wasn't a big part of the campaign based on whether Bush and his cronies broke international law and made the US look bad? Why is Obama protecting those very people he demonized in his campaign?
[/quote]Cheney Lives On (libtard Obama-media says patriotic dissent 'undemocratic')
Salon.com ^ | Thursday May 14, 2009 06:38 EDT | Joan Walsh
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:41:03 PM by lewisglad
Imagine if Republicans thought it was important to try to extend a hand to a new president who is leading the country through one of its worst crises in history. I'm not normally one to invoke "tradition," but the tradition of administrations not criticizing their successors for a decent interval actually supports democracy and the orderly transfer of power. Cheney's refusal to go away is un-democratic.
For the first time in his presidency, I had the sick feeling that Obama was lying in his remarks on the photos, once when he said the new images "are not particularly sensational, especially when compared to the painful images that we remember from Abu Ghraib" -- I simply don't believe that -- and again when he insisted "the individuals who were involved have been identified, and appropriate actions have been taken."
That is a flat-out lie. Out of eight prosecutions, mostly of so-called bad apples, only reservist Charles Graner sits in prison today, while the architects who "Gitmo-ized" Abu Ghraib and encouraged torture all went free.
I might have been mollified if, along with his decision on the photos, Obama had announced that Attorney General Eric Holder would appoint a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of who authorized and carried out torture, and to prosecute them as the law requires. But I think Obama's cave-in on the photos makes that less likely rather than more.
I could laugh at Cheney if I thought his worldview had been defeated; too much of it lives on, as Obama breaks another campaign promise and sides with the architects of the surveillance state. He's flip-flopped on FISA and the photos and other issues in between, and they've all had one thing in common: His decisions ultimately protect those who broke the law to spy and torture