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Obama said he wanted to look forward, not back, but Eric Posner is wrong about this historical precedent. In fact, @EricHolder assigned John Durham to open a criminal investigation into the CIA's treatment of detainees & Obama did not refuse to allow that. nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/trump-prosecution.html
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To put it plainly, even tho Obama thought what the attorney general decided to do was a bad idea as a matter of politics and maybe of policy too, he didn't obstruct that investigation. Just the opposite: he refused to interfere with prosecutorial decisions & impede the inquiry.