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Would Obama prosecute the Bush administration for torture?

Obama's brain trust wants to form a commission on torture and call Bush officials as witnesses, but put off prosecutions -- if any -- till a second term.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Sunday, August 3, 2008 07:13 PM

    Trials are unnecessary

    All Obama has to do is declare the parties in question to be "enemy combatants." Then he can have them imprisoned indefinitely without charges. At least that's what George W. Bush says.

    No one wants to go through a long trial, which the Republicans would call a "witch hunt." So let's just haul them away, never to be heard from again.

    Then we can go back to abiding by the Constitution.

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