Comments on: Torture undermining criminal cases

By: Mayra Bailey

Mayra Bailey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:14:04 +0000

It made me think of what the famous Ursula LeGuin said – “You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.”…

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:05:59 +0000

As bad as Ashcroft was, it’s truly frightening to realize that he was still the most honorable member of the Bush administration.

By: YellowdogLiberal

YellowdogLiberal — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:28:01 +0000

We can’t (or won’t) find a 6-foot-7 Type 1 diabetic, but we sure can prosecute the hell out of his poor schmuck driver.

I’m soooooo tired of this crap. I hope we can survive the next six months.

Dennis

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:21 +0000

I’m beginning to think bushco tortured these folks to make sure they would NOT talk, or at least that they would NOT give out valuable info.

Impeach now. Then send them to the Hauge.

And make the BFEE empty their pockets on the way out.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:01:35 +0000

Mukasey is now asking for laws to hold detainees ‘until the war on terror is won’. Supreme Court’s been known in the past to throw out laws that lacked sufficient specificity.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:59:02 +0000

Like I said before when bush was still claiming ‘We don’t torture’ the U.S. had a notorious reputation for not convicting or allowing coerced confessions to be used.
Having said that, I’m now reading ‘The innocent man’, and wonder if the value of any confession has merit.

By: Maggotpunk

Maggotpunk — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:07:40 +0000

Once again the Bush regime fails on the war on terra.

By: writerdog

writerdog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:50:45 +0000

Ashcraft also said that the intent is not to convict detainees it is to hold them till the war is over.
He was speaking though about POW and the administration to forestall war crimes charges made it clear that the detainees from the war on terror are not POWs.

So which is it? are these criminals or prisoners of war?