Should President Obama appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies?

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Arlen Specter
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. "You just have to walk in and ask where the file cabinets are."
	9/12/2009 11:06:30 AM

Nancy Pelosi
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. "I think the president is taking exactly the right approach. His approach is he's about the future."
	5/20/2009 2:40:29 PM

Amnesty International
	President Obama should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. a thorough and independent investigation of the widespread and systematic abuses undertaken in the name of national security
	5/20/2009 2:39:58 PM

Gary Kamiya (journalist)
	President Obama should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. "it seems likely that an investigation of the Bush years ...would be precisely the painful but illuminating thing needed"
	5/20/2009 2:37:24 PM

David Limbaugh
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. "Bloodlust of the Avenging Left: There is obviously no limit to the political left's bloodlust for all things George W. Bush..."
	5/20/2009 2:24:51 PM

MoveOn.org
	President Obama should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. No one is above the law. It's time to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute the architects of the Bush-era torture program.
	4/26/2009 3:53:59 PM

Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. "[a] left-driven desire to prosecute people"
	4/25/2009 5:33:44 AM

John Cornyn
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. "This not only a bad idea, it is a diversion from the economic crisis we face."
	4/25/2009 5:33:31 AM

Liz Smith (journalist)
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. "When your president talks about turning the page, he doesn’t mean to have the country and media embroiled and obsessed with Bush and company for ages ahead"
	4/24/2009 4:30:17 PM

Bill Maher
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. "If they went after Bush, the atmosphere in that town would be absolutely poison"
	4/23/2009 6:52:08 PM

Investor's Business Daily
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. In that spirit, we hope he rejects Congress' bad idea to prosecute Bush officials for "crimes."
	2/5/2009 3:14:18 PM

Barack Obama
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. That doesn't mean that if somebody has blatantly broken the law, that they are above the law. But my orientation's going to be to move forward
	2/5/2009 3:07:09 PM

Los Angeles Times
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. But as enticing as many find the idea of putting Rumsfeld or Cheney in the dock, neither a show trial nor a truth commission would be the right way to expunge or atone for the abuses of this administration.
	1/21/2009 9:55:38 AM

Robert Schlesinger
	President Obama should not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. This particular president campaigned on the idea of moving past Washington's partisan wars.
	1/20/2009 9:32:45 PM

John Cusack
	President Obama should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. Since we know the Bush administration at the highest levels approved waterboarding which is torture which is a war crime, will you appoint a special prosecutor and fulfill your duty to see that justice and the rule of law apply to all Americans?
	1/20/2009 8:08:45 PM

Glenn Greenwald
	President Obama should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush Administration policies. To argue that new administrations should refrain from investigating crimes that were committed by past administrations due to the need to avoid partisan division is to announce that the rule of law does not apply to our highest political leaders
	1/20/2009 8:03:59 PM