Sometimes I’m baffled by our collective ability to miss the obvious.

Ask yourself this: Since when does the President of the United States get to decide who is, or is not, prosecuted for a federal crime? Where is it written that a president can determine that a certain class of people, believed to have committed crimes, can not even be investigated?

President Obama can express his views about whether to enforce the laws against torturing prisoners, but ultimately, the decision to prosecute or not, belongs in the Justice Department.