[The] incoming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush presidency.The current thinking on this is that President Bush will wind up pardoning those in question before leaving office, leaving moot the option of prosecution.
..."It's just not good for the intelligence community and the defense community to have people in the field, under exigent circumstances, being told these are the rules, to be exposed months and years after the fact to criminal prosecution," said former White House counsel Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr.
None the less, telling a major news organization that you have no intention of prosecuting these criminals is a slap in the face to those of us who wanted to see the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions restored under President Obama. The current administration have wiped their asses with both documents these last eight years, and I don't see how letting the criminals in question go free helps rid the American psyche of such horrendous governance.
