• finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    16 hours ago

    There is no end to the number of people who could have tried to prosecute Bush, but placing the responsibility on their direct political rivals is just idiocy. No politician should be pursuing the imprisonment or trial of their competitors, even if you agree that the competitor did commit horrible crimes, it should be somebody else’s responsibility.

    Obama did not pardon the Bush Admin.

    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip
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      11 hours ago

      The DOJ falls under the remit of the executive. If a former president were to be charged for their crimes, the sitting president would necessarily be involved.

      I suppose a charge could come from UN court of justice and ha lol like our leaders would ever allow that precedent to get set