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Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Obama's plans for probing Bush torture

President Bush could pardon officials involved in brutal interrogations -- but he may also face a sweeping investigation under the new president.

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  • Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:05 AM

    What crimes?

    Hey, GWB only did what the American public demanded -- namely, use his power to pursue the evil parties who perpetrated 9/11. The author and all the bloggers write oh-so-sanctimonious comments as though they are not culpable. But they are. And I am too. We are the Twenty-First Century analogy to the German silent majority who did not have the courage to oppose the evil of Nazism. We lacked the strength of character to see through the fog of our own vindictiveness on the 12th of September, 2001. If there is to be indictment, it must not stop with the Bush Administration.

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