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Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:00 AM

Establishment Washington unifies against prosecutions

What explains the virtual unanimity among political and media elites that Bush officials should be protected from any accountability for crimes they committed?
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  • Thursday, January 15, 2009 03:40 PM

    Julius Streicher Revisited

    I brought this up last week and I'm glad to see Glenn Greenwald agrees. The reason the establishment media at first pooh-poohed and are now wetting their pants at the very idea of war crimes trials is because THEY would find themselves in the dock, just as Julius Streicher was at Nuremberg.

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