NYT Calls For Investigation Of Bush-Era Abuses

New York Times:

We've known for years that the Bush administration ignored and broke the law repeatedly in the name of national security. It is now clear that many of those programs could have been conducted just as easily within the law perhaps more effectively and certainly with far less damage to the justice system and to Americans' faith in their government.

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Comments

[martinchill]

the editorial is titled "Illegal, and Pointless."

exactly.

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"Two things seem disturbingly clear. First, President Bush and his top aides panicked after the Sept. 11 attacks. And second, Mr. Cheney and his ideologues, who had long chafed at any legal constraints on executive power, preyed on that panic to advance their agenda."

don't tell me he didn't know it was coming.

[Whinger]

War crimes should be investigated and the appropriate action taken!

Good enough for soldiers, good enough for the people in high places!

[KLordsha]

DOES ANYONE KNOW....if the NYT also called for an investigation of Paul Krugman for gross political armchair quarterbacking?????

[LemonMeringue]

How silly. That would not be illegal. Anybody can offer their opinion.

[stevelaudig]

Think Andersonville. Think Josef Mengele. Cheney was directing err micromanaging human experimentation in the application of pain to obtain information. Josef Richard Cheney.