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When are public servants going to learn that it's not about them, but it's about the office they hold?
Of course Barack Obama will run his Administration in a way that is clean from the torture fetishists of those before him. He will set a great example of the way forward.
And by allowing a case involving extraordinary rendition to go forward no differently than under Bush, Barack Obama is clearly signaling that he's not out to punish Bush and the policies of the recent past.
But by so doing, he opens the door to torture to other presidents in the future whose names are not Bush and Obama.
This is not rocket science. Precedent is the permission slip of those who have no other recourse to cover their depravity. History is chock-a-block with bloody exempla.
