why won’t Obama free BushCo’s political prisoners?

Keep the Change: Obama Backs Bush’s Political Prisoner Operation
by Chris Floyd

We all know about the vaunted — not to mention shameless — “continuity” between the Bush and Obama administrations in foreign policy and “national security,” with Bush’s generals, and even Bush’s Pentagon honcho, still running — and expanding — the Terror War under Barack Obama’s orders, while he also wages legal war in the courts to uphold Bush’s authoritarian perversions of the Constitution, and defend the war criminals in Bush’s gulag — some of whom Obama has elevated to even greater heights of power.

But surely there is some real “change” going on elsewhere in government, isn’t there? How about at the throughly rotted Justice Department, where Bush cronies turned federal law into a partisan weapon, even jailing opposition political figures on trumped-up charges, like the worst kind of third-rate, tinpot tyranny? Surely Obama and his highly progressive Attorney General, Eric Holder, are going to clean out the fetid swamp of lawlessness at Justice, aren’t they?

Er, no.

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