According to an artcle in the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal, some people around Obama may favor torture. I don’t kow if this is Murdoch’s way of forcing the new administration to embrace the illegal ways of the Bush administration, or just an attempt to erode the credibility of the new administration before it even takes control.
The right-wing is of-course buying into this but so are certain “progressive” blogs, who also seem to want the Obama presidency to fail. My guess is that over the next 4 years some people who called themselves progressives will align themselves with the right in hopes, of impeding an Obama presidency and showing that the Lieberman/Clinton wing of the Democratic party is the only way to govern.
I don’t understand these ‘progressives” other than maybe they would like to keep fighting the sixties culture wars for another fifty years. Sadly for the most part liberals won the culture wars of the sixtiesand at this point we can move-on to more important and pressing problems and opportunities. But for some people on the left and almost everyone on the right the sixties need to be refought everyday. Kind of like ground hog day in bell bottoms.
He needs to close Gitmo first thing after taking office, and investigate how we got to this point. People who played a hand in all this should be prosecuted.
Looking at you John Yoo!
I think the new administration is trying to avoid a war crimes trial for Bush and Cheney bur t some point someone will have to held accountable for the torture and other abuses of power.