How the US and Israeli justice systems whitewash state crimes | Glenn Greenwald

Courts are supposed to check the abuse of executive power, not cravenly serve it. But in the US and Israel, that is now the case

The US military announced on Monday that no criminal charges would be brought against the US marines in Afghanistan who videotaped themselves urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. Nor, the military announced, would any criminal charges be filed against the US troops who "tried to burn about 500 copies of the Qur'an as part of a badly bungled security sweep at...