Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker has spied what the mainstream media has overlooked.  Barack Obama has openly spoken of pursuing war crimes trials against members of current Bush administration officials, if he is elected. Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News interviewed Obama concerning this.

Obama shows a facade of uniting the country. Is putting your predecessors on trial an example of unity? America has over two centuries of history without the totalitarian practice of jailing predecessors when a new president takes office.

Here is Obama's answer to Bunch's question on the possibility of war crimes trials, in its entirety:

"What I would want to do is to have my Justice Department and my Attorney General immediately review the information that's already there and to find out are there inquiries that need to be pursued. I can't prejudge that because we don't have access to all the material right now. I think that you are right, if crimes have been committed, they should be investigated. You're also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt because I think we've got too many problems we've got to solve. "

So this is an area where I would want to exercise judgment -- I would want to find out directly from my Attorney General -- having pursued, having looked at what's out there right now -- are there possibilities of genuine crimes as opposed to really bad policies. And I think it's important-- one of the things we've got to figure out in our political culture generally is distinguishing between really dumb policies and policies that rise to the level of criminal activity. You know, I often get questions about impeachment at town hall meetings and I've said that is not something I think would be fruitful to pursue because I think that impeachment is something that should be reserved for exceptional circumstances. Now, if I found out that there were high officials who knowingly, consciously broke existing laws, engaged in coverups of those crimes with knowledge forefront, then I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law -- and I think that's roughly how I would look at it."

Bunch points out that some interpret discussions of waterboarding by officials as grounds for launching a probe.

What kind of country does he think America is?  The Former Soviet Union perhaps.  Is this just one of the "changes" he is talking about?  Is this what the American people really want?