re: #12 Rightwingconspirator

I suppose the throat. And box was coffin. But this just gave me a chill like nothing I have read in a long time. For the first time ever I’m thinking war crimes as a serious rather than a rhetorical accusation. My god, what if this takes down both Presidents? I mean if this stuff continued over the last year… Hello President Biden.

That’s one reason why the prosecutions we’re so far seeing, initated under Holder, have such extremely narrow and limited scope.
Those prosecutions were announced at noon on the day following the ACLU winning the court case that compelled the release of the 2004 OIG CIA report.
Contrary to the fantasies on the right, Obama (and Holder) have exactly zero interest in ever seeing Bush, Cheney, Yoo, et al. ever prosecuted— because it would open the door for the same to happen to Obama admin officials, and possibly even Obama, in future.
The prosecutions that are going to take place will target a few low level operatives who ‘exceeded’ the EIT. And possibly some (lowlevel) lawyers. Those prosecutions, should they happen, will therefore have the effect of legitimising the Yoo memos ex post facto — they will take it as a given that the Yoo framework is valid, that is.
So, meet the new boss, same as the old boss, more or less.