Three top former Justice Department attorneys have received most of the criticism for providing legal cover for torturing suspected terrorists. But e-mails and additional information show that other Justice Department attorneys agreed with them that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” were legal, though several objected to their use, reported the New York Times. For example, James B. Comey (in photo), the former deputy attorney general who balked at the Bush administration’s secret wiretapping program, concluded that the interrogation techniques were legal, though he said in e-mails that “some of this stuff was simply awful” and warned then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that “it would come back to haunt him and the department.”
The fact that several attorneys thought the techniques were legal makes it difficult to press ethics or legal charges against former Justice Department attorneys John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Steven Bradbury, as some have called for. Still, Brian Tamanaha, a St. John’s University law professor who has studied the interrogation memorandums, contends that concluding that waterboarding was legal required “extraordinary contortions in language and legal analysis.”
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Sort of like having the Carr brothers’ attorneys decide that home invasion, rape, and murder are “legal.”
Darn that Pelosi! She had the power to stop the torture or at least speak out against it as the senior member of the oversight committee. What did she do? Nothing!!!
But no problem: Libs are going to take taxpayer money and buy an exotic island resort for a few dozen of the terrorists who have sworn death to Americans to their Allah.
I cannot make this stuff up.
Groupthink infected every aspect of the Bush administration. No dissenting views were tolerated – even Colin Powell had to toe the Bush line with the lies about WMDs.
blah blah blah
dead horse
beaten
They stacked the justice dept wilt RR yes men, who was going to stand up and object?
Bush admin would tolerate no dissenting opinions, sometimes you get what you ask for.
Groupthink infects every aspect of the Obama administration.
No dissenting views are tolerated.
Michele is the Real Deal! She’s like the next door neighbor, she’s one of us!
Not some gun toting pistol whipping mama from the outback.
Again…payback’s a mother….listen to the whiney Pubes!
There will be no investigation. No criminal charges. Obama cannot afford to embarrass Pelosio any more than she already has been. Her ratings in the polls are fading fast.
Not some gun toting pistol whipping mama from the outback.
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Australian women are badasses.
“Australian women are badasses.”
I can attest to that. First time there was during Kangaroo II (a SEATO joint operation).
Women out drank the men. I saw one compete in the mostly drunk mens glass eating contest.
Maybe Obama can’t afford an investigation because the ‘if the president does it, it’s not illegal’ is a precedent that will be very useful.
One of the bennies of having an Unitarist legal staff is the chief can do no wrong.
“Phantom” notes –
“…‘if the president does it, it’s not illegal’ is a precedent that will be very useful.”
I think it could be used to round up Advocates of Illegal Abortion (and doctor-murders) and stick ‘em in Gitmo where “a few bad apples” can throw Bibles into toilets.
We’ll even give ‘em internet access so drive-by posters and assassination-buff “parkay” can post his scroll-overs just in time for the 5pm waterboarding.
LIBs support the torture of Americans.
“ANTI” –
I thought it wasn’t “torture.”
Get your stupid arguments in order, CONs.
LIBs like Monkeyhawk, support the torture of Americans.
Who was it (King? Some Repubic Party congresscritter) who bragged –
“Detainees at Gitmo get better health care than the majority of Americans.”
It was considered a “gaffe” because he spoke the truth.
“Detainees at Gitmo get better health care than the majority of Americans.”
It was considered a “gaffe” because he spoke the truth.
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Monkeyhawk agrees that Gitmo should remain open.
Phantom
Posted June 10, 2009 at 8:56 am | Permalink
Michele is the Real Deal! She’s like the next door neighbor, she’s one of us!
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How many pairs of (fugly) $450 sneakers do you own?
Again, “ANTI” –
WHOOOOSH!”
SolDevVB
Posted June 10, 2009 at 11:46 am | Permalink
How many pairs of (fugly) $450 sneakers do you own?
Two.
“SolDevVB” –
You CONs rilly rilly don’t understand women, do ya?
Carp about her ass.
Snark about her overbite. (I was always a sucker for Gene Tierney’s was the sexiest in the movies.
Keep bone-digging for that videotape of Michelle Obama ranting about “whitey.”
But you don’t ever get in the way of a woman and her shoes!
Then I guess you are just like Michele mo’ tatas. You smuggling a bear trap in your mouth too?
But you don’t ever get in the way of a woman and her shoes!
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That all depends on if you have a good piece of hickory in your hand.
The argument that something can be more difficult to prosecute if you apply the proper number of attorneys to it is really a howler. As I went over-and-over with some in this forum, the administration–Bush or Obama–doesn’t have the last word as to what the law is. Congress’s determination is what controls, and the Supreme Court (see Marbury v. Madison) has the last word.