Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Now We Know Part of Why Obama Backtracked Over Torture Prosecutions

It appears that Rahm Emanuel's and Robert Gibbs statements about not prosecuting people, incensed senior career lawyers at the Department of Justice, who saw this as political meddling in a law enforcement decision.

Interestingly enough, as Scott Horton notes, the net result of this fallout may be to force AG Holder to appoint a special prosecutor in order to defuse those charges, which to my mind is a good thing.

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