Rahm is standing between America and coming clean on her war crimes.

Rahm Emanuel has stood between us and accountability on torture. And if today or tomorrow or soon, DOJ announces a whitewash, Rahm owns that too.

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Within short order after his selection, Rahm was working hard to jerry-rig his replacement to make it easy for him to swoop back into the House in two years to take away Pelosi's gavel. As a result, Greg Craig was forced to jump through some ill-advised hoops to distract the press from Rahm's conversations with Rod Blagojevich; you can be sure Rahm's conversations with Blago will continue to be a liability as that case gets closer to trial.

But, we were promised, Rahm would get us health care. What that really meant though is that we had to clear the political landscape to give Rahm his opportunity to get us health care. And instead of doing the legislative work to get that done, Rahm and the loathsome Jim Messina have been trying to cut deals with big health care corporations to turn this into a welfare program for them. As even that effort is beginning to go south, Rahm has (predictably) already switched into scapegoat mode, trying to blame his utter failure on health care on someone else.

Against that background, consider again the parallel scapegoating directed at Greg Craig and Eric Holder for their efforts to come clean on torture. Not only is Rahm prepping to blame Max Baucus for his own health care failure, but he's prepping to blame Greg Craig and Eric Holder, too (Rahm's worried, you see, because he let Dick Cheney gain the upper hand in this debate, which is yet another thing he failed to anticipate). And, at the same time, he's doing everything he can to limit the torture investigation into one targeting only the Lynndie England's of the torture world, and not the Yoos, Cheneys, and Addingtons.

more:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/08/17/rahm-and-the-torture-investigation/

Obama seems to be on the right track usually until he does certain strange things and you think "what's this all about". Typically that's where Rahm steps in and whispers something in his ear and Obama takes a softer approach that seems to cater to the typical Washington "politican" than the American people.

Clintonite wants that to happen.

Surely people don't believe the deepsixing of BCCI matters throughout the 90s occurred without some powerful Dems working to protect the secrecy and privilege of Poppy Bush, Jackson Stephens, Dubai and Saudi royals, Bin Laden family and other figures involved in those criminal operations, right?