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Friday, February 13, 2009 12:00 AM

Pardon the Bush miscreants

A truth commission is a good idea. But unlikely. Instead Obama should grant immunity to those who publicly testify about torture and spying.
By Joe Conason

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  • Friday, February 13, 2009 06:56 AM

    It dies with a whimper

    Here's a free prediction for you: in the end, Obama and the Democrats will do NOTHING about the torture and spying issue. They'll mumble, make some bland and vaguely positive statements, and change the subject. The media will happily play along, if they even bother to cover the topic in the first place. And the whole issue will die a quiet death.

    Acts of torture and uncontrolled spying will not be punished; they'll just be forgotten. And we'll all be shocked, shocked, when it turns out in the future that both torture and warrantless wiretapping have been abused on a massive scale by this and future administrations.

    Americans deserve to be tortured and spied on. We failed to protect our liberties, and now the wolves are unchecked. The best we can hope for is that eventually the government (or a private corporation working for the government) will commit an abuse so egregious that we're finally forced to wake up and reclaim our rights...and our humanity.

    But I wouldn't count on it.

    —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters

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