Obama Administration May Allow Bush Administration To Plead Guilty

Obama Administration May Allow Bush Administration To Plead Guilty
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The Obama administration is considering a change in the law to deal with calls for war crime trials that would clear the way for Bush Administration officials that could be facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.

The provision could permit prosecutors to avoid airing the details of brutal interrogation techniques as well as the embarrassing takeover of the Bush administration by Vice President Dick Cheney to create false ties between Sadaam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden that led to an invasion of Iraq and hundreds of thousands of deaths.

"It would certainly make it easier on Cheney who has got to be suffering any number of humiliating injuries in his almost daily effort to contort the truth," said legal expert READ THE REST OF THE STARTLING LEGAL MOVE HERE

Steve Young is the author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful," (www.greatfailure.com), an award winning TV writer and blogs the appropriately-named steveyoungonpolitics.com

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