The Obama administration has clung for so long to the Bush administration’s expansive claims of national security and executive power that it is in danger of turning President George W. Bush’s cover-up of abuses committed in the name of fighting terrorism into President Barack Obama’s cover-up...
We share concerns about inflaming anti-American feelings and jeopardizing soldiers, but the best way to truly avoid that is to demonstrate that this nation has turned the page on Mr. Bush’s shameful policies. Withholding the painful truth shows the opposite.
Like the insistence on overly broad claims of secrecy, it also avoids an important step toward accountability, which is the only way to ensure that the abuses of the Bush years are never repeated. We urge Mr. Gates to use his discretion under the new law to release the photos, sparing Americans more cover-up.
The Editors speak like said abuses were the sole product of Bu$hCo and most likely the heavily scapegoated Cheneyburton branch of the Company. Not that Cheneyburton wasn't guilty of all- and far more- than they were accused of.
But abuses never repeated?
Seriously: the depredations of Bu$h and Cheney are nothing new in Amerikan policy. One suspects things are being carried out nowadays that are just as bad as any wet dream Big Time ever had. The difference is where the covert line is drawn. In Dicksieland the wingnuts relished the screams of the tormented. In the land of Hope and Faith the orcs do the dirtywork only in the dead of night where the children can't see.
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