Re:CIA new nominee director Gina Haspel ran a torture site a...
by wpietri on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @11:32AM
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Yeah. I'm so tired of this line of reasoning. "The torture happened during the Bush administration and she was put in charge of the CIA during the Trump administration, so obviously we'd better blame the black guy for this."
Yes, I too would have liked it if Obama did more on this. But I am not convinced that he did less than he politically could. As is apparently easy to forget, the US right was at his throat for years. A Republican Congressman went on TV to talk about how Obama threatened America's security by... wearing a tan suit. [1] The notion that they would have gotten behind a sustained investigation of the criminality of the Bush years strikes me as absurdly optimistic.
Yes, I too would have liked it if Obama did more on this. But I am not convinced that he did less than he politically could. As is apparently easy to forget, the US right was at his throat for years. A Republican Congressman went on TV to talk about how Obama threatened America's security by... wearing a tan suit. [1] The notion that they would have gotten behind a sustained investigation of the criminality of the Bush years strikes me as absurdly optimistic.
[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/81220218-157.html