JANUARY 15 20091. Forgive and Forget?
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1. Forgive and Forget?
By PAUL KRUGMAN for NYT
....Let’s be clear what we’re talking about here. It’s not just torture and
illegal wiretapping, whose perpetrators claim, however implausibly,
that they were patriots acting to defend the nation’s security. The fact
is that the Bush administration’s abuses extended from environmental
policy to voting rights. And most of the abuses involved using the
power of government to reward political friends and punish political
enemies.
....In fact, we’ve already seen this movie. During the Reagan years,
the Iran-contra conspirators violated the Constitution in the name of
national security. But the first President Bush pardoned the major
malefactors, and when the White House finally changed hands the
political and media establishment gave Bill Clinton the same advice it’s
giving Mr. Obama: let sleeping scandals lie. Sure enough, the second
Bush administration picked up right where the Iran-contra
conspirators left off — which isn’t too surprising when you bear in
mind that Mr. Bush actually hired some of those conspirators.
Now, it’s true that a serious investigation of Bush-era abuses would
make Washington an uncomfortable place, both for those who abused
power and those who acted as their enablers or apologists. And these
people have a lot of friends. But the price of protecting their comfort
would be high: If we whitewash the abuses of the past eight years, we’
ll guarantee that they will happen again.
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