PittsburghThoughts

On the the 26th, two days ago, The New York Times called For Obama to end the cover-up of possible crimes by the Bush administration. It's pointed view is that, now, they are becoming Obama's crimes and cover-ups. The Obama administration is using the same "Bush-era argument that the executive branch is entitled to have lawsuits shut down whenever it makes a blanket claim of national security." The lawsuits stem from the government’s extraordinary rendition program, under which foreigners were kidnapped and flown to other countries for interrogation and torture.

 

I think the reason is plain, Obama is afraid of the CIA. He granted immunity to the CIA torturers in April this year and his Alberto Gonzales, Eric Holder said:

 

 

which sounds to many, similar to the Nuremberg Defence; that the defendant was "only following orders."

The war crimes tribunal of Nuremberg established a set of principles, Nuremberg Principle IV states:

 

Our military has never held themselves up to the same standards established at Nuremberg. If we did I doubt that we'd be able to fight wars. Once free will is surrendered to a higher authority, the higher authority has an awesome responsibility, and because we are flawed creatures operating within a corrupt system, there will never arise an incentive to change.

 

We are being held at the mercy of our killing creations. Worse yet suspicion of government today amounts to meaningless protests by the too few who are easily portrayed as kooks and malcontents.

 

Now that Obama has adjusted and adapted to his new role as facilitator in chief, those guiding the machine will continue to develop new ways to kill, both literally and politically. We are at the point in our history where even "the most powerful man in the world" has to watch his back and be careful of who he pisses off.

 

He folds on the big international issues, isn't clear exactly where he stands on the big domestic issues and is loved for his sense of humanity.    Gene