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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

When is torture not a crime?

(Fernando Botero: from the "Abu Ghraib" series)

"What occurred in the last eight years was an assault on who we are," Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley said on MSNBC's Countdown last evening. "I think that President-elect Obama's going to have to decide whether he wants power without principle or whether he wants to start with a true change, to say that no matter where an investigation will take us, if there are crimes to be found they will be prosecuted."

Read more and see the full interview here.