Bush, Cheney, Rice and Benedict Arnold, May History Judge them as Equals.

At the risk of sounding like a right winger if the democrats
win the election there must be investigations into the rampant
domestic lawlessness of the Bush Cheney years to serve as a
deterrence to persuade future right wing administrations that
nobody is above the Rule of Law.

Upon determination that laws of the United States were
violated those responsible must be held to account even if
those responsible are pardoned by the departing Bush regime.  
 

Below is my strategy to accomplish this.

I would suggest that the new Congress should fortify the laws
for creating the office of Special Prosecutor and fully fund
an investigation by this office as a start. Congress must also
include provisions that include an absolute power of subpoena
by this office and any person that fails to report, provide
the requested documents, e-mails and e-mail logs, computer
hard drives or anything else reasonably requested be held in
contempt of court and a warrant for arrest be issued
immediately.

I would suggest as a strategy this investigation use the same
model of investigation as is currently used when investigating
drug trafficking by first investigating at the lower levels.
Upon finding that crimes were committed then the lower level
criminals will be offered a plea bargain to roll over on those
above them in the chain of command.

At the same time Congress should also hold public hearings to
investigate additional wrong doings by this administration

Bush and Cheney see only those at the elite level as their
contemporaries so I’ll guess that the pardons they issue won’t
extend very far down the chain of command. However it would
not surprise me if Bush will attempt to issue a blanket pardon
attempting to exempt from prosecution “anybody who broke a law
while advancing the "War on Terror”.

In the event that Bush does attempt to issue a blanket pardon
Congress should enact a law banning such pardons
retroactively, citing the many instances of retroactive laws
President Bush signed into law.

Returning to being at the risk of sounding like a right
winger, my motivation for pursuing the prosecution of
violations of the law during the Bush Cheney administration is
for the same reasoning right wingers defend the death penalty;
to act as deterrence against future administrations acting as
if they are above the law. In the aftermath of Watergate those
at the lower levels were held to account while Richard Nixon
received a pardon from Gerald Ford. 

In Iran Contra, which was coordinated at the highest levels of
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Oliver North’s conviction was
overturned on appeal and the highest level conspirators were
later pardoned by George H. W. Bush.

A pattern has emerged where the right wing in the United
States thinks that they are above the law.  In the Bush Cheney
administration this pattern exploded into their preferred
method of operation. 

This pattern must end or the United States will surely end.

The best way to end this pattern is to hold the Bush
administration to account. 

Here is a series of grave violations by the Bush
administration that destroyed much of America’s ability to
gather quality intelligence in a timely manor:

Bush’s authorized release of the Saudi tape clandestinely
filmed of Osama bragging about 9/11 to the crippled Saudi
sheik that destroyed the best opportunity to kill or capture
bin Laden.  The outing by Rice of  the identity of Muhammad
Naeem Noor Khan, an al Qaeda communication expert that had
been turned by the Pakistani ISI into a double agent.  The
outing of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings by Cheney to
discredit her husband, and the fact that somebody with a very
high security clearance disclosed to Ahmed Chalabi that the
U.S. had the ability to intercept and decode all Iranian
diplomat messages to Iranian Embassies and diplomats across
the globe.  Chalabi then passed this information to Iran
destroying a vital window into the inner workings of the
Iranian government.  These acts account to a treasonous
assault on America’s ability to gather intelligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Naeem_Noor_Khan

To advance the Neocon policy of regime change through wars of
aggression the Bush administration had to use false
intelligence to scare the public into supporting the illegal
wars.   Now you discover the motive for their actions, they
needed to destroy quality intelligence so they could replace
it with their own bogus intelligence.   The results? Thousands
of needless deaths of American soldiers. 

Benedict Arnold did nothing worse than Bush, Cheney and Rice.
While their pardons will prevent them from being prosecuted
having history hold them in lower esteem than Benedict Arnold
will serve to hold them to account. 

If Arnold is so loved how is it that the monument you cite
with a photograph doesn’t bare his name?

Yes, during his participation as a colonial officer in the
Revolutionary War Arnold should have been considered a hero by
the Colonists and was slighted time and time again, but he did
change alliances to the British and accept an officer’s
commission in the British army.  

Arnold betrayed his homeland after petty political pressures
forced him to near bankruptcy and he developed a love interest
in an eighteen year old British sympathizer.

Bush, Cheney and Rice sold out their nation to advance a
political agenda far closer to Adolph Hitler’s fascist regime
in Germany than Arnold’s legitimate grievances against the
Colonies. 

I ask again why should history Judge Bush, Cheney Rice and the
rest of the Neocons as being any better than Benedict Arnold?