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Laura Flanders talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. The smartest conversations, with the smartest thinkers and doers of our time, distributed in multiple formats on a variety of platforms. Keep abreast of fresh content by following GRITtv, the site Flanders founded, on Twitter @GRITtv.
Is it possible that the Obama administration?s attempt to prosecute the crimes of the Bush administration could actually be worse than doing nothing...
Is it possible that the Obama administration?s attempt to prosecute the crimes of the Bush administration could actually be worse than doing nothing? That?s what Andrew Sullivan concluded in response to an LA Times article suggesting that Holder will prosecute only those who went beyond the parameters outlined by the Bush administration torture memos. ?This strikes me as the very very worst of all possible worlds,? writes Sullivan, ?- the kind of split-the-difference pragmatism that will end up alienating everyone.? Scott Horton, Contributing Editor at Harper?s Magazine, Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Vijay Padmanabhan, former US State Department Lawyer and a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on the Justice Department decision.
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