{"id":192270,"date":"2009-04-22T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/22\/now-we-know-part-of-why-obama-backtracked-over-torture-prosecutions\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T04:12:00","slug":"now-we-know-part-of-why-obama-backtracked-over-torture-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/22\/now-we-know-part-of-why-obama-backtracked-over-torture-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Now We Know Part of Why Obama Backtracked Over Torture Prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s and Robert Gibbs statements about not prosecuting people, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-04-22\/obamas-about-face-on-prosecution\/\">incensed senior career lawyers at the Department of Justice<\/a>, who saw this as political meddling in a law enforcement decision.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, as Scott Horton notes, the net result of this fallout may be to force AG Holder to appoint a special prosecutor in order to defuse those charges, which to my mind is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s and Robert Gibbs statements about not prosecuting people, incensed senior career lawyers at the Department of Justice, who saw this as political meddling in a law enforcement decision. Interestingly enough, as Scott Horton notes, the net result of this fallout may be to force AG Holder to appoint a special &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1168,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-torture","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}