Sunday, July 12, 2009

Tentative Relief- Never mind

I'm assuming that anyone who reads this already knows that I really think that Bush and others who were responsible for the whole Guantanamo Bay situation really need to be prosecuted. If anyone didn't at the very least suspect this of me, I will be completely shocked. Well, lately I've been feeling disappointed and frustrated because it was looking like that wasn't going to happen. But luckily, there's some good news on this front!!!

Think Progress (not just Think Progress, but that's what I'm going to link to) is reporting that attorney general Holder is "leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate Bush admin's torture policies".

...Curses! So much for that! Look at this. Basically, he's only prosecuting interrogators who went beyond what the evil John Yoo did. ...If you're looking at the link, read through the whole thing: through update two. ...I almost didn't read that part.

Basically, information is very tentative at this point, but it looks like there will be an investigation so limited and so badly targetted that it would have been better not to have it at all. All of this is extremely discouraging, and what's truly awful is that it appears that Holder's trying to trick us or something. I'm most confused about all this.

Edit: For once my giant folder of politics-related bookmarks came in handy. A lot of websites don't have anything about this yet, and even fewer actually include the bit about the discouraging details. Sites that actually do have something about this include TalkLeft, ... and other than what I already linked to, that's it. Plus a few had the first bit, but the second part's kind of important. Hopefully all that means is that no one has managed to write anything about it yet.

3 comments:

  1. That sucks. I want progress, not a sham of an investigation. From what I can gather from the salon link, we're only prosecuting the people who actually tortured, not the big names in government who think it's ok to make a policy of doing so. Just because they're famous doesn't mean they're above the law, and the only way to keep this from happening all over again is to follow through with Obama's anti-torture beliefs. I say beliefs because quite honestly I don't know if they're going to be put into practice for fear of being viewed as going on a "partisan witch hunt".

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  2. Oooh! You shouldn't call him 'Bush'. You should call him Shrub. Of course, that is no longer an insult to bushes but it is a new insult to shrubs...

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