Joe Biden, Barack Obama's vice-presidential running mate, has indicated that a new Democratic administration could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration over the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo bay. Mr Biden said at an event in Deerfield Beach, Florida: "If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president - no one is above the law." His statement is the strongest indication yet that an Obama administartion might seek legal redress against the President George W. Bush. It could undermine Mr Obama's message of bipartisanship and moving beyond the battles over Iraq. In April, Mr Obama struck a similar note when he promised that he would ask his attorney general to review the Bush administration's decisions to differentiate between "genuine crimes" and "really bad policies". "If crimes have been committed, they should be investigated," he told the Philadelphia Daily News. "You're also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we've got too many problems we've got to solve."
Mr Biden said at an event in Deerfield Beach, Florida: "If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president - no one is above the law."
His statement is the strongest indication yet that an Obama administartion might seek legal redress against the President George W. Bush. It could undermine Mr Obama's message of bipartisanship and moving beyond the battles over Iraq.
In April, Mr Obama struck a similar note when he promised that he would ask his attorney general to review the Bush administration's decisions to differentiate between "genuine crimes" and "really bad policies".
"If crimes have been committed, they should be investigated," he told the Philadelphia Daily News. "You're also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we've got too many problems we've got to solve."
you are the media you consume.
At any rate, I believe it when I see it. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I knew the Tories were seeking to project a kinder, gentler image, but are they really pushing the idea that prosecuting violent crimes is something only crazy lefties would think of doing?
partisan = Democrats not supporting the samedivisive = id Shrill = id In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
As always with the Dems: Baby steps. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
