Will Anyone EVER Hold The Bush Administration Accountable?

What you have is a two-tiered system of justice where ordinary Americans are subjected to the most merciless criminal justice system in the world. They break the law. The full weight of the criminal justice system comes crashing down upon them. But our political class, the same elites who have imposed that incredibly harsh framework on ordinary Americans, have essentially exempted themselves and the leaders of that political class from the law.

They have license to break the law. That’s what we’re deciding now as we say George Bush and his top advisors shouldn’t be investigated let alone prosecuted for the laws that we know that they’ve broken. And I can’t think of anything more damaging to our country because the rule of law is the lynchpin of everything we have.

Read more from the Bill Moyers interview of Glenn Greenwald (one of my most favorite political pundits).

I have no idea what Obama is going to do with all the law breaking information he will become privy to after taking office. I know he's all for fixing this country and not necessarily for doling out punishment to the malfeasants that broke the law under the guise of running the Bush Administration's idea of government.

Personally, I think they all should be prosecuted, from George W. Bush, to Dick Cheney, on down to Rumsfield and Rove, then Gonzales, and, oh what the fuck, the list is so damn long.

Obama not only has to repair the damage that this administration did to the country, but he has to restore America's likeability throughout the rest of the world. And allowing tyrants such as those that ran this government the past years to break international laws (like rendition, and let's not forget the complete disregard for the Geneva Convention), establish illegal prisons, torture, invade other countries (the list is too long to really put up in one post) will not bode well. There has to be some retribution for the criminal acts committed by the Bush Administration the past eight years.