{"id":4628,"date":"2009-04-24T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2009-04-24T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:48:03","slug":"show-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"Show Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Hewitt on <a href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/blog\/g\/9d819797-9006-4f41-a320-642fc55f4442\">Obama&#8217;s urge to conduct a purge:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no serious prosecutor who would bring a charge against any of these Bush Adminstration officials.  No one not from the far left side of the political spectrum can even frame the indictment or explain how the tactics less coercive than water-boarding could be considered criminal when Congress, <strong>offered the opportunity to declare water boarding a crime, refused to do so<\/strong>.  When the left turns up a former United States Attorney or even senior prosecutor not named Ramsey Clark willing to lay out his theory of prosecution, that will be an argument worth responding to. This is a  witch hunt, a political prosecution, one that should be a central issue in the campaigns of 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I almost hope Obama goes ahead with it. It&#8217;d make the McCarthy years look like traffic court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Hewitt on Obama&#8217;s urge to conduct a purge: There is no serious prosecutor who would bring a charge against any of these Bush Adminstration officials. No one not from the far left side of the political spectrum can even frame the indictment or explain how the tactics less coercive than water-boarding could be considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}