Where Obama Disappoints 0
I can understand why President Obama believed that digging for the truth of Bushie behavior during the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq and in America’s Concentration Camps might not be worth the candle.
If you’re going to accomplish anything, you have to pick your battles.
The Bushies did so much damage in so many places (just consider the Mineral Management Service) that picking that battle, while it might satisfy moral outrage and re-establish principles of law and morality, would probably overshadowed all the others.
Nevertheless, the current administration’s choice to continue along the path of repressing information is most distressing. Glenn Greenwald:
All of that would be bad enough if his generous immunity were being applied across the board. But it isn’t. As numerous incidents reflect, as high level Bush lawbreakers are vested with presidential immunity, low-level whistle blowers who exposed serious wrongdoing and allowed citizens some glimpse into what our government does are being persecuted by the Obama administration with a vengeance. Yesterday it was revealed by Wired that the Army intelligence officer who reportedly leaked the Apache helicopter attack video to Wikileaks — and thus enabled Americans to see what we are really doing in Iraq and other countires which we occupy and attack — has been arrested (Wikileaks denies the part of that report claiming that the whistleblower also leaked to it “hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records”).
More Raw Story.
