Kuyambira pomwe adatenga udindowu, Purezidenti Obama adakhazikitsa zosintha zambiri zomwe zimasemphana ndi mfundo za kayendetsedwe ka Bush. Purezidenti watsopano walamula kuti palibe bungwe la boma lomwe lidzaloledwe kuzunza, kuti ndende yaku US ku Guantรกnamo itsekedwe, komanso kuti malo obisika a CIA atsekedwa. Koma Obama sali wodzipereka atafunsidwa ngati angafune kufufuza ndi kuimbidwa mlandu kwa akuluakulu a Bush omwe adaphwanya lamulo. "Lingaliro langa ndiloti palibe amene ali pamwamba pa malamulo ndipo, ngati pali milandu yomveka bwino, anthu ayenera kuimbidwa mlandu ngati nzika wamba," adatero Obama. "Koma," anawonjezera, "nthawi zambiri, ndimakonda kuyang'ana kutsogolo kuposa kuyang'ana kumbuyo." Obama akuwopa kuti kusunga Team Bush kuti ayankhe kukhoza kusokoneza anthu aku Republican omwe akufunabe kuwagonjetsa.
Obama atha kukhala kuti sanachitepo kanthu, makamaka pofufuza maloya omwe adalangiza White House momwe angazunze ndikuthawa. The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) yalemba lipoti lokonzekera lomwe likuwoneka kuti likukondweretsa omwe anali maloya a Dipatimenti Yachilungamo a John Yoo ndi Jay Bybee, olemba mbiri yozunza anthu, malinga ndi a Michael Isikoff a Newsweek. OPR ikhoza kufotokozera maloyawa ku mabungwe awo omenyera ufulu wa boma kuti awalangize, kapena kuwatumiza kuti akafufuzidwe. Obama sayenera kuyambitsa kufufuza; OPR yaziyambitsa kale, pa wotchi ya Bush.
Mfuti yosuta yomwe ingapangitse George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, et al., Ndi mauthenga a imelo omwe adadutsa pakati pa maloya ndi White House. Isikoff adawulula kukhalapo kwa maimelo awa pa The Rachel Maddow Show. Ena amati akuluakulu a Bush ndi osalakwa chifukwa adadalira upangiri wazamalamulo kuchokera kwa maloya awo. Koma ngati pulezidenti ndi wachiwiri kwa pulezidenti atauza maloya kuti agwiritse ntchito malamulo kuti awalole kuzunza, ndiye kuti chitetezocho sichidzatha.
Lipoti lochokera ku Senate Armed Services Committee linapeza kuti "akuluakulu m'boma la United States adapempha kuti adziwe momwe angagwiritsire ntchito njira zachiwawa, kumasuliranso malamulo kuti awoneke ngati ovomerezeka, ndi kuvomereza kugwiritsidwa ntchito kwa omangidwa."
Cheney posachedwapa adavomereza kuti avomereze kulowa m'madzi, komwe kwakhala kuwonedwa ngati kuzunzidwa pansi pa malamulo a US. Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Colin Powell, ndi John Ashcroft adakumana ndi Cheney m'chipinda chapansi pa White House ndipo adavomereza njira zofunsa mafunso mwankhanza, kuphatikiza kulowa m'madzi, malinga ndi lipoti la ABC News. Atafunsidwa, Bush adanena kuti amadziwa ndipo adavomereza. John Yoo analemba mu Wall Street Journal adanena kuti Bush "akhoza ngakhale kuvomereza madzi, zomwe anachita katatu pazaka pambuyo pa 9/11."
Woimira Dipatimenti Yachilungamo adalonjeza kuti lipoti la OPR litulutsidwa nthawi ina ya Novembala. Koma loya wamkulu wa a Bush a Michael Mukasey adatsutsa chikalatacho. Mtundu womaliza udzaperekedwa kwa Attorney General Eric Holder. Oyang'anira akuyenera kusankha ngati apanga izi, maimelo, awonekere poyera kenako momwe angachitire.
Pamene dziko la United States linavomereza Mgwirizano Wotsutsa Chizunzo, tinalonjeza kuti tidzabweza kapena kuimbidwa mlandu anthu amene achita, kapena amene ali nawo pa ntchito yozunza. Tili ndi zigawenga ziwiri zamilandu yozunza anthu - Torture Statute ndi War Crimes Act (kuzunza kumawonedwa ngati mlandu wankhondo pansi pa malamulo a US). Msonkhano Wachizunzo ndi wosatsutsika: palibe, kuphatikizapo nkhondo, yomwe ingapemphedwe ngati chifukwa chozunzidwa.
Yoo adafotokozeranso kuzunzika mocheperapo kuposa momwe malamulo aku US amaperekera, ndipo adalangiza White House kuti ikhoza kuthawa kuyimbidwa pansi pa War Crimes Act podzinenera kudziteteza kapena kufunikira. Yoo ankadziwa kapena ayenera kudziwa za kuletsa kotheratu kwa chizunzo kwa Msonkhano Wachizunzo.
Pali chitsanzo cha kuchititsa maloya kukhala ndi mlandu wopalamula chifukwa chopereka uphungu wolakwika mwalamulo umene unabweretsa chivulazo chachikulu chakuthupi kapena chamaganizo kapena imfa. Mu U.S. v. Altstoetter, maloya a chipani cha Nazi anaimbidwa mlandu wamilandu yankhondo komanso milandu yolimbana ndi anthu chifukwa cholangiza Hitler zamomwe angachotsere "mwalamulo" anthu omwe akuwakayikira kundende zapadera.
Pafupifupi magawo awiri mwa atatu a anthu omwe anafunsidwa ku USA Today/Gallup Poll amakonda kufufuza kwa gulu la Bush chifukwa chozunzidwa komanso kugwiritsa ntchito waya popanda chilolezo. Pafupifupi anayi mwa 10 aliwonse amakonda kufufuza zaumbanda. Cong. A John Conyers akhazikitsa malamulo okhazikitsa National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties. Sen. Patrick Leahy amalimbikitsa bungwe la Choonadi ndi Kuyanjanitsa; koma izi sizokwanira. Ma TRC amagwiritsidwa ntchito popanga demokalase yomwe yangotsala pang'ono kusintha. Popereka chitetezo kwa omwe akuchitira umboni pamaso pawo, zikanatsimikizira kuti omwe ali ndi udindo wozunza, nkhanza komanso akazitape osaloledwa saweruzidwa konse.
Attorney General Eric Holder asankhe Woyimira milandu Wapadera kuti afufuze ndikuzenga mlandu akuluakulu a Bush kuphatikiza maloya ngati John Yoo omwe adawapatsa chivundikiro "chovomerezeka". Obama akunena zoona pamene adanena kuti palibe amene ali pamwamba pa lamulo. Kuyankha ndikofunikira kuti atsogoleri athu asazunzenso komanso kuzunza anthu.
Marjorie Cohn ndi pulofesa ku Thomas Jefferson School of Law komanso Purezidenti wa National Lawyers Guild. Ndi mlembi wa Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law. Buku lake laposachedwa kwambiri, Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent (ndi Kathleen Gilberd), lisindikizidwa mu Epulo. Zolemba zake zasungidwa pa www.marjoriecohn.com.