In light of the release of the International Committee of the
Red Cross and the Office of Legal Counsel memos detailing torture
authorized by the Bush Administration, should President Obama seek
prosecution of top Administration officials?
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
“In light of the release of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Office of Legal Counsel memos detailing torture authorized by the Bush Administration, should President Obama seek prosecution of top Administration officials?” Yes: 3 No: 8
? Karen Anderson: “No! Details come out on an hourly basis. We are obsessing over the rights of people who behead enemies on TV and fly planes into buildings, killing innocent people.”
? Bert Berson: “No. We need to investigate first; who, what, where and when.”
? Chris Bryant: “The public sentiment, at that time, was to do whatever it took to combat terrorism which was taken up by our elected officials in ill conceived decisions. Unfortunately, this type of action would surely degenerate into a witch hunt and not result in any more meaningful changes than have already been made. We have more important issues to address.”
? David Cohen: “No. Move forward. Not backwards.”
? Dennis Kennedy: “No! As much as I believe that mistakes were made, there are many more important issues to deal with, now. Let’s move forward and not focus on past mistakes.”
? Julian Mancias: “No. The Obama Administration is right in admitting and acknowledging that waterboarding and other similar tactics are in fact acts of torture and that mistakes were made by the previous administration in allowing them to happen and leave it at that.”
? Linda McNulty: “No, we should respect the legacy of all previous presidents. What good would that do now anyway?”
? Henry Miller: “We are a society of laws and no one is above them. If there is evidence that egregious violations of our laws occurred, the Justice Department, not President Obama, should pursue prosecution. Ex-Vice President Cheney’s explanation that torture, or as he puts it, “these things” helped prevent terrorist attacks just doesn’t cut it.”
? Lisa Pampuch: “Yes, to demonstrate that we are a country of laws in which no one is above the law, and to try to mitigate the damage done by these abhorrent policies.”
? John Quick: “It would definitely do a lot for the cause of justice and for America’s severely damaged international reputation; however we must not spread our attention so thinly that we fail to repair the damage done to the economy by eight years of Bush and Cheney.”
? Emily Shem-Tov: “A full independent investigation should be conducted and if the evidence warrants, prosecution should occur.”
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