Obama Reluctant to Look Into Bush Programs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/us/politics/12inquire.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=obama&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Subject: re: Obama Reluctant to Look Into Bush Programs
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   President Obama will face many expectations when he takes office. As our leader, he must look to the future; as our chief executive, he must look to our past. Unlike Orwell's 1984, our laws concern crimes committed in the past. As chief executive, it will be his responsibility to see that those laws are enforced. If members of a past administration have put us in violation of our treaty obligations, enforcement is not discretionary. His oath of office binds him to defend and enforce the constitution, including article six; that in turn obliges him to prosecute torture and cruel or inhumane treatment.

Barry Levine