As Obama himself has described them in words and structure strikingly similar to the Holder statement: “I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand, I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards. And part of my job is to make sure that for example at the CIA, you've got extraordinarily talented people who are working very hard to keep Americans safe. I don't want them to suddenly feel like they've got to spend all their time looking over their shoulders and lawyering up…”
We certainly wouldn’t want to “lawyer” up those fine and extraordinarily talented CIA inquisitor torturers, would we? No, that would be uncivilized. It’s alright to beat and drown detainees since it’s being done by extraordinarily talented CIA agents. Lawyering up such fine individuals would be inhumane!
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