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A pardon for Charles Graner is an appropriate addition to the list of things I'd like Barack Obama to do the moment he takes office. And by that I mean right there at the podium, after he's sworn in but before he gives his inaugural address. Besides pardoning Graner, Obama should then sign executive orders making torture illegal, requiring warrants for wiretaps, banning rendition of prisoners to foreign countries, and countermanding every other extraconstitutional authority the Bush administration claimed to have had. Do it right there in front of Bush and Cheney. Then start his speech. Wouldn't that be great?
