Yesterday it was torture

Today, Obama says he's A-OK with telecom immunity too.


Link via Dambala who goes on to claim that this is somehow mitigated by the fact that it might now be possible to prosecute Bush for similar crimes.

I disagree. All this says is that violating the Constitution is fine as long as you're the President.

Update: Greg Sargent has more today on the so-called "loophole" in Obama's ostensibly anti-torture executive order.

Obama very strongly denounced torture yesterday as he signed the order outlawing it. But it’s nonetheless hard to avoid the conclusion that the administration does in fact want to preserve some kind of flexibility here, for reasons that are not yet entirely clear, at least to me. Perhaps it’s merely intended to take the steam out of CIA critics who say that Obama shouldn’t foreclose options for intel agents in extraordinary circumstances.

note: Haloscan has been wiggin out again over the past few days. Comments are getting delayed or are not getting posted publicly for some reason. If you really have to bitch at me, you can always just throw a shoe.