From National Review Online:
The Obama administration apparently is giving a green light for liberal zealots in Congress and in the Justice Department to go after former Bush-administration lawyers.
We are supposed to damn these out-of-office lawyers because, in a time of national crisis, they gave advice that was construed as permitting torture. In three exceptional cases, interrogators waterboarded terrorist detainees — at least one of them responsible for the murder of 3,000 Americans. I emphasize the adverb “apparently,” because — as has been the case from campaign-finance reform to the imposition of the highest ethical standards in history for Cabinet nominations — with the Obama administration, any ethical proclamation is usually at odds with the unethical reality.
The administration should tread carefully, since it is about to embark on something nefarious that could tear apart the country. [Read More]
