Turley: Torture investigation would ‘go directly to the doorstep of President Bush’

President Barack Obama’s release on Thursday of four Bush administration memos sanctioning torture has been widely praised. However, questions have been raised by the statementsfrom both him and Attorney General Eric Holder that they have no intention of prosecuting the low-level CIA officers who carried out the tortures.
“How about prosecuting the people who did the sanctioning, then?” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow wondered. She asked constititutional law professor Jonathan Turley whether Obama’s statement that “this is a time for reflection, not retribution” means he’s “promising to not prosecute officials who sanctioned torture.” LinkHere