After eight years of having an executive branch that didn’t give a hoot for the letter of the law or the Constitution, we find ourselves in a position of seeing an opportunity to punish wrongdoing being cast aside.
I’m, of course, talking about the torture memos. The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility reportedly concludes that the lawyers who drafted the “torture memos” were legally sanctioning illegal interrogation methods. It asserts that they committed lapses of judgment but claims that they should not be prosecuted.
According to the Washington Post, former Bush administration officials have launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to get the Justice Department to soften the ethics report even further.
I say no. This instance screams for a complete criminal investigation into Bush administration officials who authorized detainee abuse and torture.
No one is above the law.
Pamela Jessen
Everett
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