http://www.newsweek.com/id/206300
From the article ....
Four knowledgeable sources tell NEWSWEEK that he [Atty General Holder] is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices, something the president has been reluctant to do. While no final decision has been made, an announcement could come in a matter of weeks, say these sources, who decline to be identified discussing a sensitive law-enforcement matter. Such a decision would roil the country, would likely plunge Washington into a new round of partisan warfare, and could even imperil Obama's domestic priorities, including health care and energy reform. Holder knows all this, and he has been wrestling with the question for months.
That’s right Mr Holder. Decline to prosecute Black Panthers wielding a baton at a polling place and instead investigate Bush officials for trying to protect us?!! And oh, it is such a hard decision for you – you are wrestling so hard with it! Somehow I doubt this.
His wife ... grew up in the Deep South under Jim Crow—her sister, Vivian Malone Jones, integrated the University of Alabama—and has a fierce sense of right and wrong. At a recent dinner in a leafy corner of Bethesda, Malone drew a direct line from the sins of America's racial past to the abuses of the Guantánamo Bay detention center. Both are examples of "what we have not done in the face of injustice," she said at one point, her Southern accent becoming more discernible as her voice rose with indignation.
A direct line from racial injustice to Guantanamo? Heavens, with this logic, all national injustice leads to Guantanamo! But what do we expect as everything with these people is about race. What is this – payback time for Whitey? I’ll use their own words: You won. Now get over it and grow up.
~Cato
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