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[DeSwiss]

Excerpted from the article:

"Human Rights Watch, http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/07/12/getting-away-torture">in a new report, “Getting Away With Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees,” declared there is “overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration.” President Barack Obama, the report went on, is obliged “to order a criminal investigation into allegations of detainee abuse authorized by former President George W. Bush and other senior officials.”

But Obama has no intention of restoring the rule of law. He not only refuses to prosecute flagrant war crimes, but has immunized those who orchestrated, led and carried out the torture. At the same time he has dramatically increased war crimes, including drone strikes in Pakistan. He continues to preside over hundreds of the offshore penal colonies, where abuse and torture remain common. He is complicit with the killers and the torturers." http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/americas_disappeared_20110718/">~Chris Hedges

In the end it is the deeds, not the words, which count. And so while others may find a way to give Obama a pass because, as they say, "he is only one man, he is not a dictator, he isn't the whole Congress. He can only do so much." So what excuse will they give him for sanctioning this illegal behavior? How can he be exonerated for allowing these murderers and torturers to go free? How can he not be also held accountable for the deaths of innocents? Why won't the Harvard law professor uphold the law?

It is because we know that he is afraid of the people who did this.

It is because we know they would murder him just like they have done so before.

- And so, we know that we are living a lie. And lies cannot stand......

"Close down Guantanamo, restore habeas corpus, say no to renditions, no to wireless wiretaps..." - Barack Obama, November 14, 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp">Guantanamo is still open, while http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States#Suspension_in_the_21st_Century">habeas corpus has been restored by Executive Order, renditions and wireless wiretaps http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/06/16/obama-frodo-give-bush-powers/">continue. In addition, President Obama has given himself the power to assassinate http://ccrjustice.org/learn-more/faqs/kill-lists">a US citizen overseas in the name of national security. )

"I've said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo and I will follow through on that. I've said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm going to make sure we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world." - Barack Obama, 60 Minutes (2008) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp">Guantanamo is still open, the US is using foreign nations to carry out torture, when it isn't http://news.change.org/stories/un-investigating-bradley-manning-torture-claims">committing it itself.)