that the person responsible for executing legislation and protecting this "Goddamn piece of paper" that most of us refer to as The Constitution, plans to "look forward" instead of "looking backward" when it comes to crimes of this administration.

Nothing will stimulate the economy quicker than putting money in the hands of regular citizens, and there is no quicker way to put money in the hands of regular citizens than to allow them to rob banks.

I agree. Why look backwards at a bank robbery crime, when we can look forward in the best interest of our nation, thus allowing our 3 million newly unemployed citizens a means to obtain cash promptly to pay their bills? Forget about the damage the actual robbery does to those whose money is stolen. We just need to look forward and not backward.

If your thing is child rape, it's much more important to look forward instead of trying to determine how and why someone could rape a 6 year old little girl, and much more important than deterring future child rapists with the threat of accountability. This will just harm the nation to hold child rapists accountable when the economy is in such bad shape.

I would like to take this opportunity to declare how much of a ignorant dumbass that I, and apparently millions of Americans are, if we are suppose to fall for the elitist governing investment class protectionism and the claim that not holding rich politicians accountable for their crimes somehow benefits me personally, when the actual crimes committed hurt me more than not prosecuting them would ever help.

Giving our government back to us means that those in government are accountable to us.

Let me repeat that.

If our government is being returned to us, that means every aspect of it should be accountable to us, whether this is campaign promises and legislation, or sadly, if those in our government take it upon themselves to break the law, legal accountability.

Stop the elitist protectionism. If sentences for crimes are good for the peasants, they are good for the kings as well.

I once again will hold my judgment until Obama takes the oath of office to protect The Constitution, and until his attorney general pick is confirmed, but I am not optimistic about someone who told the old Pelosi lie of not thinking any laws were broken, when apparently special anti-constitutional revisions of previous laws were done in response to apparently not so legal stuff. What was all that retroactive immunity to?

All I can say is watch out covert CIA agents. The new chief to be is implying that you can be outted and that is not illegal, not that he would, but the door is open for any president down the road to.

You people are incredible. What crimes do you think were committed by the Bush administration while protecting your sorry asses from Islamic terrorism? Obama won't persue them because there weren't any committed. Your hatred for Bush and the fact he defeated your other messiah Algore, in 2000 has driven you lefties to insanity.

This is a nice article on Guantánamo:

Seven Years of Guantánamo,
Seven Years of Torture and Lies
by Andy Worthington
January 12, 2009

Excerpt:

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"These people are committed terrorists," [Rumsfeld] declared on Jan. 22, 2002, in the same press conference at which he spoke about the photos. "We are keeping them off the street and out of the airlines and out of nuclear power plants and out of ports across this country and across other countries." On a visit to Guantánamo five days later, he called the prisoners "among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth."

Seven years after Guantánamo opened, it should be abundantly clear that neither Rumsfeld nor Vice President Dick Cheney, President Bush, or any of the other defenders of Guantánamo who indulged in similarly hysterical rhetoric had any idea what they were talking about.

The administration did all in its power to prevent anyone outside the U.S. military and the intelligence services from examining the stories of the men (or even knowing who they were) to see if there was any truth to their assertions, but as details emerged in the long years that followed, it became clear that at least 86 percent [.pdf] of the prisoners were not captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan, as the government alleged, but were seized by the Americans' allies in Afghanistan – and also in Pakistan – at a time when bounty payments, averaging $5,000 a head, were widespread.

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he will be breaking his solemn oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. It will show us, and the world, that restoring our moral standing and respect is of little importance.

"I'm always amazed when I hear people saying; "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?" Lewis Black