Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.
Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. . . .
When asked during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whether he would "pursue the violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration," Biden answered in the affirmative.
"We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offence that's occurred," he continued, going on to praise congressional committees for the deliberate pace of their inquiries into alleged Bush administration misdeeds.
A June article in London's Times began as follows:
It was the biggest event that the sultry little capital of Equatorial Guinea had seen since 1979, when the previous dictator, President Macias Nguema, was overthrown, tried in a cage suspended from the ceiling of a cinema, sentenced to death 101 times, then executed by firing squad.
As the Guardian recounts, Biden temporized, saying, "No one's talking about pursuing President Bush criminally."
Maybe Mr. Biden ought to read the first sentence again.
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