Perhaps Obama has been sort of ambivalent lately, at least in the media, on the war crimes of the Bush administration, in an attempt for them to let their guard down.
Maybe it's wishful thinking maybe not
Some Obama advisors are proposing a bipartisan commission to study the Bush administration's rendition and interrogation tactics.
And Dawn Johnson, Obama’s choice for Office of Legal Counsel, is a vehement opponent of the torture and rendition acts of the Bush administration and does not want to only look forward.
We must avoid any temptation simply to move on. We must instead be honest with ourselves and the world as we condemn our nation’s past transgressions and reject Bush’s corruption of our American ideals. Our constitutional democracy cannot survive with a government shrouded in secrecy, nor can our nation’s honor be restored without full disclosure.
In April 2008, Obama said he would ask his Attorney General to
"immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."
Obama has shown me that he plays chess while others play checkers and by not telegraphing his punches he has done quite well for himself. By toning down the pre-inaugural rhetoric he just may subvert a preemptive Pardon by Bush. I mean Obama is a Constitutional scholar and put the constitution as the top branch of government on the transition website
And Bush plays checkers.