Posted on 04/21/2009 10:00:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama not ruling out interrogation prosecutions 16 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama Tuesday refused to close the door on prosecuting authors of Bush-era legal rationales for terror suspect interrogations, after offering immunity to CIA operatives involved.
Obama made a distinction between the agents who carried out harsh interrogations permitted by the White House after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the legal officials which justified such methods.
"With respect to those who formulated those legal decisions, I would say that that is going to be more of a decision for the attorney general within the parameters of various laws."
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Sounds like he voted “present” again.
I hope President Bush and others are paying attention. Oh, I know damn well they plan on doing just that.
I would not be surprised if they do this.
My God what is happening here?
He’s trying to neutralize Cheney on Hannity last night when he called for release of all the memos, including the ones that describe the terrorist attacks that were prevented.
“My God what is happening here?’
A dictatorship in the making.
I am glad I am not the only one who is beginning to get that message.
I guess the only thing we can do right now is watch and wait.
45 more months of this bullshit?.....
talk to our enemies and lock people up who protected us.
see what is going on here now. This is just pure crazy and Soros has his foot soldiers out getting signatures on petitions.
next will be fair doctrine, then take the guns ways.
we are heading into a war here between left and right. States down here are being dictated to by Soros and his northern elitist commies.
screw that
He just threw the CIA under the bus.
I thought the next civil war wouldn’t be coming for awhile, but now I’m not so sure.
BINGO!!
Soon as he proves his eligibility to be president.
The List, ping
There will be no prosecutions and if there are it will redound to our liking. Congress was plainly aware of what methods were being used. They approved. Since they approved then the laws they wrote plainly included those methods.
I would love to see the fascist bastards go ahead with this.
It’s long past time that Americans know that some of their children are alive because tough men did the tough work of putting caterpillars in boxes with jihadist scum.
Oh, for Pete’s sake, “not ruling out” is a completely toothless formulation. If Bambi’s radical handlers think that the public just needs to softened up a little more to tolerate their show trials, they’re due for a disappointment.
show trials. diversion. distraction.
we have always been at war with Eastasia
President Bush (43) could have easily anticipated these attacks would come from future Democrat pacifist presidents.
He had years to issue blanket pardons.
Instead, he did nothing.
I read the memo in question, all 40 pages. What it describes is hardly “torture”. Harsh interrogation and discomfort, yes, but far from the common perception of “torture”. There’s nothing actionable in there.
That’s an interesting observation. If I were Cheney, I’d take the ass-—e up on it. He’d open a gash in the BO Ship of state 100 feet long, and twenty feet high.
What took place at Gitmo was legal. End of story.
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