It is time that Obama investigates and prepares to prosecute those promoting torture

     Horton and Rattner state: "[W]e saw Susan J. Crawford, who was the senior most Bush administration official responsible for dealing with the Guantanamo tribunals, state that she, reviewing the case of al-Kahtani, concluded that he had in fact been tortured, and she laid out, in an interview with Bob Woodward, in some detail her conclusion. Now, what’s significant about that is that the entire program for interrogating al-Kahtani went to the National Security Council, was reviewed and was approved, including the approval of Cheney and Bush. So they’re both linked to a case that their own principal agent considers to have been torture.

This creates something that just can’t be swept under the carpet in the criminal justice system. In fact, under the Convention Against Torture, Articles 4 and 5, the US now has a clear obligation to commence a criminal investigation into what happened and act on it. And the Obama administration hasn’t yet done that. I think it’s going to have to look reality in the face, and it’s going to have to reach some hard decisions. "

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/5/despite_celebrated_orders_closing_gitmo_and

It is necessary that a special prosecuter to investigate the crimes of the past  7 years in order to really put the end to torture and illegal things like rendition.  Until this prosecution is taken place, AMERICA cannot move forward.

We do not want justice in America and elsewhere to depend any more on who is in the White House.