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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	What he Really Said
	Date:	4/21/2009 2:14:42 PM

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama on Tuesday left open the possibility of criminal prosecution for Bush administration officials who drew up the legal basis for interrogation techniques that many view as torture.

"I think we should be looking forward," President Obama says Tuesday.

Obama said it will be up to Attorney General Eric Holder to decide whether or not to prosecute the former officials.

"With respect to those who formulated those legal decisions, I would say that is going to be more a decision for the attorney general within the parameter of various laws, and I don't want to prejudge that," Obama said during a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House.

"There's a host of very complicated issues involved there. As a general deal, I think we should be looking forward and not backward.

"I do worry about this getting so politicized that we cannot function effectively, and it hampers our ability to carry out critical national security operations."

So it is not quite what you have stated. It's a question whether they exceeded their legal authority.

As far as the use of force by the Navy in the pirate situation -- the President has to authorize the use of military forces in a civil situation. I'm sure he left the decision on when to fire up to the Commanding Officer, but only the President can decide if the situation presents a threat to US national security. There are laws that govern the use of the military in "police actions".

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