Both David Frum and Mario Loyola are against prosecutions. Frum worries about the continued “revenge cycle” in our Presidential politics getting worse. Loyola argues that Eisenhower fell into a similar trap and that we ended up with McCarthyism as a result of it.
http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=bdf35089-8887-421a-a941-259ad8b2249d
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDBlZjVjN2EwNjYwNzQ1MDMwZjk5NjMzNzY0ODk1ZTU=
On the issue of who to prosecute, a Bloggingheads segment between Joshua Cohen and Mark Schmitt:
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/19201?in=29:28&out=39:17
UPDATE: Right now, on TPM mainpage, post is up by Brian Beutler on Sen. Kit Bond and Sen. John McCain, both of them having stated objections to prosecutions.
UPDATE #2: Sullivan answers Frum:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/overzealousness.html
UPDATE #3: John Judis argues for patience in The New Republic.
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/04/24/torture-memos-and-the-iraq-syndrome.aspx
UPDATE #4 Noemie Emery in the Weekly Standard calls for investigations, in the belief they will vindicate the Bush administration’s tactics:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/422ggyuo.asp
Justin Frank in the Daily Beast argues for prosecution:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-26/why-obama-is-in-denial/
UPDATE #5: Conor Friedersdorf at The American Scene argues with Frum.
