Not a dime's worth of difference between 'em

From the Jonathan Turley blog post:

…the Obama Administration worked hard behind the scenes not only to prevent any investigation of torture in the United States but shutdown efforts abroad to enforce the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture. This includes threatening the Spanish that, if they did not derail a judicial investigation, it would have serious consequences in bilateral relations.

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A “confidential” April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department discloses how the Administration discarded any respect for the independence of the judiciary in Spain and pressured the government to derail the prosecution of Bush officials.

I'm not sure what prompted lambert to post this item now—it‘s from December, 2010—but it never hurts to be reminded of the current Administration‘s stance on the “rule of law” as a continuation—indeed, an embracement—of that of the prior one.

The Mother Jones piece by David Corn, “Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe,” linked to in Turley's post, gives more detail of this relatively little-known instance of bipartisanship.