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There are a lot of people that believe that George W Bush and his administration made a lot of mistakes during their eight years in power but were some really bad enough that George W or some of his top aides could actually end up spending time behind bars?

Although that may be a stretch of the imagination to a great degree ,the new Obama administration is taking the first steps to initiate an investigation that may ultimately lead to some very high ranking persons from the Bush administration ending up in some very hot water indeed.

The issue at hand is the way that the CIA under George Bush conducted the interrogation of suspects in connection with the “war on terror”. Although an investigation into the actions of the CIA is something that President Obama has shied away from in the past stating that he wants “to look forward, rather than back”, Attorney General Eric Holder insists that the evidence of abuses that he has been presented with are compelling enough for an investigation to be instigated . “I fully realize that my decision to commence this preliminary review will be controversial,” Holder said in a statement issued to the press “In this case, given all of the information currently available, it is clear to me that this review is the only responsible course of action for me to take.”

Holder has already named a special prosecutor , John Durham, to investigate certain cases of prisoner abuse that were documented in CIA records and to probe issues such as why video tapes of some of these interrogations were apparently destroyed by the CIA.

George W Bush and his then Vice President Dick Cheney have consistently denied that torture was ever used during the questioning of any subjects and that all the interrogation techniques they authorized were well within the limits of the law. There is however mounting evidence that that is not the case. A report compiled by CIA officials themselves admits that certain techniques used by their agents were “unauthorized, improvised, inhumane and undocumented”.

But how will this all lead back to Bush and company? According to a former administration legal advisor, Jack Goldsmith, he and some of his colleagues have always been conscious of the fact that the actions taken to “keep America safe” after 9/11 may one day end up with the President and his top officials being investigated and perhaps held accountable for any illegal activities they knew about or even sanctioned.

It is likely that the investigation will take a long time to complete, but considering that Bill Clinton was impeached just for lying about his relationship with “that woman” there is little doubt that some very high profile politicos both past and present will be watching its progress very closely.