I don’t even disagree with the Justice Department’s decision to ask a judge to throw out Jose Padilla’s case against John Yoo. We can’t have government attorneys getting hauled into court to account for their legal advice to members of the executive, no matter how immoral and ludicrous that advice might be. There are other mechanisms for disciplining legal malfeasance in such cases. But I am getting really tired of seeing the Obama administration go into court to protect Bush administration officials from accountability for their crimes. What’s needed is some balance. Where is the report and recommendations of the Office of Professional Responsibility? Aren’t they going to call for Yoo’s disbarment? Let’s get on with it. This guy still has a job as a professor. He and David Addington ought to be testifying against Dick Cheney and George Bush in a court of law. Or, is it okay to torture people now? Is that who we are? We’re just going to let it go?
Here in America, we can paper over anything.
Letting these criminals get away with torture is my most bitter disappointment with Obama… so far. I am not going to “move on” and get over it. My secret hope is that he’s got a to-do list and Dick Cheney’s trial is scheduled for 2011.
I wish. Never happen, though.
Channeling his inner Sir Lancelot.
“Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who”
“Let’s get on with it. This guy still has a job as a professor. He and David Addington ought to be testifying against Dick Cheney and George Bush in a court of law. Or, is it okay to torture people now? Is that who we are? We’re just going to let it go?”
yes, that’s exactly what we’re going to do. We’re going to let it go.
Hope and change! Looking forward, not backward.
Toldya so.
It is okay to torture people because that IS who Americans are, and we are just going to let it go.
So there you go.
It is interesting to see how easily you settle for the cheap & greasy sausage that health care reform has become – but here there is some real outrage.
Mind you, I happen to agree with you to the extent that I believe that justice needs to be done (not that prosecutors should be shielded by the courts for malfeasant (is that even a word) advice) – but really the outrage is out-of-balance.
It takes a long while to get evidence of war crimes. Holder doesn’t talk about any investigation.
This has to be done right. Any major case takes time.
Let’s wait and see how this goes.
Look at the trial in Germany.
Um, have you missed the last 7 seasons of 24? This is who we have always been, it’s just out in the open now…