Attorney General Holder this week said that it would be unfair to prosecute members of the CIA who participated in war crimes, simply because someone in the Justice Department told them it was okay. This is tremendously disappointing news. President Obama and his team could have sent the message that no person is above the law, that your time will come if you break the law, and if you torture. Instead, the message they sent was that it was okay to simply follow orders of an ideologically extreme administration. And the administration sent the message to the rest of the world that America does not hold its own accountable. Nothing could have undermined the president’s to mend fences with the world.
Someone once said that the worst evil is not committed by those who act, but by those who do not. Shame on this administration for not acting.