The Obama administration could have prosecuted torturers and war criminals in the Bush administration and sent an unmistakable message to the world: torture is illegal and unconscionable. Instead the president said they would "look forward, not backward", basically turning a clear felony into a policy dispute. Trump has bragged that he will bring back torture - waterboarding and "much worse...
Obama has handed a surveillance state and war machine to a maniac says Trevor Timm at The Guardian
