Obama says he will not rule out prosecuting members of the Bush Administration for alleged war crimes.
US President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday he was not ruling out possible prosecution for abuses committed under the George Bush administration, saying no one "is above the law".
"We're still evaluating how we're going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so forth," Obama said in an interview aired Sunday on ABC's This Week program when asked about alleged abuses under Bush.
"Obviously we're going to be looking at past practices and I don't believe that anybody is above the law," Obama said.
Methinks he's not a fan of "24."
This is some blatant pandering to the rabid anti-war freaks who helped elect him. We know this because he admits it later in the story. Thankfully, whatever Obama may be, he realizes that he can't follow the agenda of his nuttier followers.
"My instinct is for us to focus on how do we make sure that moving forward we are doing the right thing," he said.
"That doesn't mean that if somebody has blatantly broken the law, that they are above the law. But my orientation's going to be to move forward."
As is becoming clearer each day, Obama's political instinct is usually pretty solid. He knows what he can get away with and what he can't, and that is a relatively good thing.
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