Democratic complicity and what "politicizing justice" really means

Salon by Glenn Greenwald | Apr. 25, 2009 (Opinion)

Bush-defending opponents of investigations and prosecutions think they've discovered a trump card: the claim that Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller and Jane Harman were briefed on the torture programs and assented to them. The core assumption here -- shared by most establishment pundits -- is that the call for criminal investigations is nothing more than a partisan-driven desire to harm Republicans and Bush officials ... Full Story »

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 by Randy Morrow - Apr. 26, 2009

Mr. Greenwald points out that investigating torture is not a partisan issue (or should not be).

As the Western world has spent decades pointing out, the hallmark of an under-developed, tyrannical society is the very same premise we have embraced: that political elites are free to break the law with impunity and never suffer the consequences that ordinary citizens do.

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