Tom Carter: Obama Shuts Down Investigation into Bush Era Torture

As part of a cover-up of Bush administration war crimes, the Obama administration announced on June 30, that it would shut down 99 investigations into the deaths of prisoners in US custody during the so-called "War on Terror", leaving only two investigations with the potential to develop into criminal prosecutions. Nevertheless, Obama is keeping methods of the the lid on the crimes of his predecessor." Of course, this is what we had to expect from a so-called President, whose burgled "Nobel Peace Prize" , as the Times reported on October 10, 2009, started a fight inside the Nobel Hall, the first time in history that this had ever happened. Obviously, the members of the Prize committee were ashamed of what they had done, and most of our world's citizens have now agreed. President Obama was "surprised and deeply humbled", yet he soon began many more wars around our world, including Afghanistan, and other locations. The Obama administration has continued and expanded the anti-democratic methods of the Bush Administration, including the use of presidential assassination orders, indefinite detention without trial or charges, blocking court cases that threaten to reveal torture, open violations of US and international law, including the War Powers Act in the case of Libya and the maintenance of illegal torture camps such as the infamous facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.