{"id":710,"date":"2009-04-18T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2009-04-18T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T15:22:40","slug":"shame-on-obama-%e2%80%9cthey-were-only-following-orders%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Shame on Obama: \u201cThey were only following orders\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 3px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/64\/AG-dog-close.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"103\" \/>Attorney General Holder this week <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/04\/16\/torture.cia.immunity\/index.html\">said<\/a> 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.\u00a0 This is tremendously disappointing news.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Instead, the message they sent was that it was okay to simply follow orders of an ideologically extreme administration.\u00a0 And the administration sent the message to the rest of the world that America does <strong>not<\/strong> hold its own accountable.\u00a0 Nothing could have undermined the president&#8217;s to mend fences with the world.<\/p>\n<p>Someone once said that the worst evil is not committed by those who act, but by those who do not.\u00a0 Shame on this administration for not acting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 This is tremendously disappointing news.\u00a0 President Obama and his team could have sent the message that no person is above the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=710\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shame on Obama: \u201cThey were only following orders\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}