Newsmax -Obama opposes prosecution [for torturers] because of the political fallout, and will not prosecute those involved. So [ACLU chief Anthony] Romero suggests that the president pardon former CIA chief George J. Tenet "for authorizing torture at the C.I.A.'s black sites overseas," former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld "for authorizing the use of torture at the Guantánamo Bay prison," senior officials David S. Addington, John C. Yoo and Jay S. Bybee "for crafting the legal cover for torture, and George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for overseeing it all."
Likening the decision to (among others) those of President Lincoln to pardon Confederate soldiers after the Civil War, Romero concludes that while "granting pardons to torturers still makes my stomach turn," it would establish that "the individuals who authorized and committed torture were indeed criminals, and that future architects and perpetrators of torture should beware."
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