Two days after the Pulitzers were handed out, Jonathan Landay at McClatchy makes a strong argument for an award next year. These Bush people were simply going to have their war with Saddam, no matter what, now, weren't they?
It has been getting a little harder with each passing day for Obama to evade the subject of war crimes investigations. With the release of this information---and this, and now this as well---one would think it is damn near impossible now.
And for the historically minded, we have been here before, as Sullivan reminds us. Only, once upon a time, we were actually prosecuting torturers, not making up excuses for them in the name of "looking forward".
---Vitelius
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