The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and Harper’s journalist, discusses the official end to any chance Bush administration torture crimes will be prosecuted; why there was plenty of good evidence to get convictions, despite AG Eric Holder’s contrary claims; effective immunity for CIA-employed torturers/murderers, whose defense lawyers would finger Donald Rumsfeld and others in the Bush White House; Obama’s outright contempt for the rule of law; and a nostalgic look back at the Reagan years when the Executive was still accountable to Congress.
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