The enormous crimes of the Bush administration are well-documented, including the launching of an aggressive war on the basis of lies; the torture and abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay and a host of secret sites around the globe, and the use of illegal wiretapping against US citizens and other flagrant violations of democratic rights. There is no shortage of statutes under which George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and others could be prosecuted.
The Democrats in Congress were accomplices to the criminality, and now the Obama administration, with minor adjustments, intends to continue these criminal policies. In addition to dispatching more troops to an expanding neo-colonial criminal war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US criminal government has recently intervened in several court cases involving torture and illegal wiretapping, defending the previous administration’s actions and invoking “state secrets privilege” to argue that the cases should not even be heard.
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