Complicit Democrats
Glenn Greenwald confirms what I’ve been saying since 2007. he links to the same Washington Post article about Nancy Pelosi’s knowledge of torture too.
It is absolutely the case that, as Mayer pointed out yesterday and as I wrote about at the time, Bush officials faced serious danger of criminal liability in the wake of the 2006 Hamdan ruling that the Geneva Conventions applied to Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees. But the Military Commissions Act, passed several months after the Hamdan ruling, took care of that problem by immunizing the lawbreakers. Jay Rockefeller was right there supporting that retroactive immunity, too — thereby helping to block investigations and prosecutions for illegal torture programs about which Rockefeller knew and in which he was complicit.
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So, of course key Congressional Democrats who were made aware of these illegal torture and surveillance programs are going to protect the Bush administration and other lawbreakers. If you were Jay Rockfeller or Nancy Pelosi, would you want there to be investigations and prosecutions for torture programs that, to one degree or another, you knew about? If you were Jane Harman, wouldn’t you be extremely eager to put a stop to judicial proceedings that were likely to result in a finding that surveillance programs that you knew about, approved of, and helped to conceal were illegal and unconstitutional?
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Booman says I’m cynical (and for that matter still hasn’t identified any good accomplishments by the Democrats since they took power), warning that
The prerequisite for all effective political action is a belief in our system of government. Once you lose that belief, the only political action possible is revolutionary.
Reading Greenwald’s post today, I am reminded of the final lines of Orwell’s “Animal Farm”:
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which
It is very difficult to maintain belief in our system of government when the Democrats help the Republicans evade accountability for Constitutional crimes, because they themselves were complicit.
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