I am so tired of this defense of Obama! [View All]

It seems that every thread that pertains to prosecuing Bush people for torture or war crimes, and every thread that discuuses the efforts of Obama's DOJ to deny to the courts classified information, includes one or more posts to the effect that it would be inappropriate for Obama to "interfere" with the DOJ. Again and again we read that it is Holder's decision whether to prosecute person X or release information Y, or we read that if Obama were to intervene, he would be politicizing the Justice Department. This is bullshit. The U.S. Constitution invests the federal executive power in the President. The Constitution gives Obama the authority and so the responsibility to ensure that the law of the land is executed. Thus, he is in charge of DOJ and if he feels that they are not properly executing the law, he has a duty to intervene and correct matters. I guess it's kind of funny. Instead of the "He was just following orders" defense, we get the "It's not his place to be giving orders" defense.