Why, how is this being quashed? If they are doing something illegal they are required to suffer legal redress, if this is still the "land of laws applied
equally to all"-the good, old US of A!
We thought that the FISA Court was looking out for our inalienable civil rights, but” The ACLU had been encouraged by the court's initial response to its request this summer, when it ordered the Bush administration to register its views about the records request. While rejecting portions of the administration's arguments, the court supported its position on continued secrecy. "The decision is disappointing, both in its reasoning and its result. A federal court's interpretation of federal law should not be kept secret from the American public," Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project, said in a statement. "The Bush administration is seeking expanded surveillance powers from Congress because of the rulings issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court earlier this year. Under this decision, those rulings may remain secret forever." The administration expressed satisfaction with the ruling."
If big bro 43's crew is pleased with something, it is shafting the great unwashed masses!
W's crimes are hurting his administration in so many areas. The article "Evidence From Waterboarding Could Be Used in Military Trials" at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121102110_pf.html
has this hair splitting statement: "The top legal adviser for the military trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees told Congress yesterday that he cannot rule out the use of evidence derived from the CIA's aggressive interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, a tactic that simulates drowning."
Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, who oversees the prosecutors who will try the detainees at military commissions, said that while "torture" is illegal, he cannot say whether waterboarding violates the law. Nor would he say that such evidence would be barred at trial. "If the evidence is reliable and probative, and the judge concludes that it is in the best interest of justice to introduce that evidence, ma'am, those are the rules we will follow," Hartmann said in response to questions from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing."
Doesn't that sound eerily reminiscent of how Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey parsed his response during the nomination hearings about waterboarding? Do you think Gonzalez, or more likely a competent lawyer, told Mukasey to avoid the issue?
There is so much hatred in our politics now. The article "Gentlemen First --
The Vice President Gets the Vapors" at click here depicts the heartless, dickless one, exhibiting gratuitous hatred towards Democrats. Why do you think he's hoping to get them yelling back at him and deflecting the 4th 's limited attention span from the true story-GOP crimes against humanity!
"Dick Cheney is worried that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has shrunken the "big sticks" of the once-tough guys who were the vice president's colleagues in Congress. Cheney, they wrote, "scoffed at the idea of two men who spent years accruing power showing so much deference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the big spending and energy debates of the year." The House's senior Democrats "march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker," Cheney said. "I'm trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn't have happened." Asked if these men had lost their spines, he responded, "They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected."
He has to be ignored, just as we have to shun big bro 43.
Attacking the innocent is an inherent GOP trait. No one can hold too much sympathy for the people who may have been involved with killing innocent US citizens, but we have to do the calculus. If the world realizes we condone "waterboarding, rendition, and other crimes against humanity" we lose our standing. We fall from being the one shining ray of hope in a despairing world. We also contribute to the generation of massive amounts of Islamic hatred for the infidels, who torture their helpless prisoners. We give any foul regime the green light to torture ours.
This burning of the CIA tapes attacks all of us as it attempts to conceal our despicable acts against prisoners whose rights are bound by international law. We don't get the right to decline from complying with the Geneva Convention. We are as bad as the worst.
That is how history will judge big bro 43.
equally to all"-the good, old US of A!
We thought that the FISA Court was looking out for our inalienable civil rights, but” The ACLU had been encouraged by the court's initial response to its request this summer, when it ordered the Bush administration to register its views about the records request. While rejecting portions of the administration's arguments, the court supported its position on continued secrecy. "The decision is disappointing, both in its reasoning and its result. A federal court's interpretation of federal law should not be kept secret from the American public," Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project, said in a statement. "The Bush administration is seeking expanded surveillance powers from Congress because of the rulings issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court earlier this year. Under this decision, those rulings may remain secret forever." The administration expressed satisfaction with the ruling."
If big bro 43's crew is pleased with something, it is shafting the great unwashed masses!
W's crimes are hurting his administration in so many areas. The article "Evidence From Waterboarding Could Be Used in Military Trials" at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121102110_pf.html
has this hair splitting statement: "The top legal adviser for the military trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees told Congress yesterday that he cannot rule out the use of evidence derived from the CIA's aggressive interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, a tactic that simulates drowning."
Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, who oversees the prosecutors who will try the detainees at military commissions, said that while "torture" is illegal, he cannot say whether waterboarding violates the law. Nor would he say that such evidence would be barred at trial. "If the evidence is reliable and probative, and the judge concludes that it is in the best interest of justice to introduce that evidence, ma'am, those are the rules we will follow," Hartmann said in response to questions from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing."
Doesn't that sound eerily reminiscent of how Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey parsed his response during the nomination hearings about waterboarding? Do you think Gonzalez, or more likely a competent lawyer, told Mukasey to avoid the issue?
There is so much hatred in our politics now. The article "Gentlemen First --
The Vice President Gets the Vapors" at click here depicts the heartless, dickless one, exhibiting gratuitous hatred towards Democrats. Why do you think he's hoping to get them yelling back at him and deflecting the 4th 's limited attention span from the true story-GOP crimes against humanity!
"Dick Cheney is worried that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has shrunken the "big sticks" of the once-tough guys who were the vice president's colleagues in Congress. Cheney, they wrote, "scoffed at the idea of two men who spent years accruing power showing so much deference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the big spending and energy debates of the year." The House's senior Democrats "march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker," Cheney said. "I'm trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn't have happened." Asked if these men had lost their spines, he responded, "They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected."
He has to be ignored, just as we have to shun big bro 43.
Attacking the innocent is an inherent GOP trait. No one can hold too much sympathy for the people who may have been involved with killing innocent US citizens, but we have to do the calculus. If the world realizes we condone "waterboarding, rendition, and other crimes against humanity" we lose our standing. We fall from being the one shining ray of hope in a despairing world. We also contribute to the generation of massive amounts of Islamic hatred for the infidels, who torture their helpless prisoners. We give any foul regime the green light to torture ours.
This burning of the CIA tapes attacks all of us as it attempts to conceal our despicable acts against prisoners whose rights are bound by international law. We don't get the right to decline from complying with the Geneva Convention. We are as bad as the worst.
That is how history will judge big bro 43.
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