Presidencies are about looking forward, not backwards, so it was predictable that Barack Obama would signal that, if elected, he would have no interest in investigating and prosecuting criminal acts during administration previous to his own. As predictable as Obama’s position is — Hillary Clinton and John Kerry would likely have held the same view under similar circumstances, and certainly John McCain supports it — it is deeply troubling because the crimes in question — including lying to Congress, authorizing torture, betraying a covert CIA agent, criminal negligence in the response to Hurricane Katrina, spying on Americans without warrants, using the Justice Department as the political enforcement arm of the Republican National Committee and consorting with corrupt lobbyists, just for starters — are so serious. If Nixon had...
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