<![CDATA[Holder Can't Prosecute Bush Abuses Too Many Democrats Aided and Abetted Them]]>

1.0 link 158447 <![CDATA[Holder Can't Prosecute Bush Abuses Too Many Democrats Aided and Abetted Them]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/holder-cant-prosecute-bus_b_158447.html Attorney General designate Eric Holder raised eyebrows and a few howls when he told Utah Senator Orrin Hatch that he would not prosecute any Bush officials for authorizing dubious wiretapping. Holder has little choice in the matter. That would bog the Obama administration down in an all consuming ultimately no win factional fight with Congressional Republicans, the courts -- especially the Supreme Court which upheld Bush provisions authorizing torture, and legions of holdover Bush Justice Department and civil rights division-appointed...

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