The Audacity of...
The principal issue here is that the Obama administration is not merely failing to investigate (let alone prosecute) acts of high-level criminality by U.S. government officials. Far worse, ever since he was inaugurated, Obama has engaged in one extraordinary legal maneuver after the next to block American courts from ruling on the legality of those actions. He has now extended his Bush-protecting conduct to the international realm, as he re-iterates Bush's threats that we will purposely leave British citizens more vulnerable to terrorist attacks if their courts rule that, under their laws, their citizens are entitled to know what was done to Binyam Mohamed.~Glenn Greenwald
Not surprising
This isn't really surprising. Obama is now head of the security state. What the security state does is expand it's power to do what it wants. Whatever the empire requires, the security state delivers. If McCain had won the election, he'd be taking the same position. What's disappointing is that Obama ran on a campaign of transparency and openness in government. But we all know what campaign promises are worth, NOTHING. Just like his pledge that no one was above the law, we see how much Obama meant that one as well. It's Obama that is standing in the way of any investigations or prosecutions of torture. It's Obama that's standing in the way of real progress. We all got duped into thinking he was a progressive, when he's definetly a statist.~Conservativeslayer