National Defense Authorization Act: White House Says Senior Officials Will Not Recommend Obama Veto

[During the same time period, the Obama White House worked to block plans by then-Speak­er Nancy Pelosi for a Congressio­nal investigat­ion into those crimes, and also had its State Department pressure Spain to impede its own judiciary'­s investigat­ion into the torture regime.]

So the White House, and the President himself, publicly harangued the DOJ for months not to prosecute Bush officials (once the damage was done and controvers­y erupted over the White House’s constant pressure on the “independe­nt” DOJ, Obama cursorily acknowledg­edthat it was a decision for the DOJ to make). Beyond that, the White House applied constant, intense political pressure on the Attorney General not to proceed with plans to try the 9/11 defendants in a civilian court.
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