and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
Posted on 05/23/2009 7:06:13 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
There has been very little attention paid in the MSM to a meeting on Wednesday between President Obama and various leftwing "human rights" groups except for a brief mention at the CBS News Political Hotsheet. However, according to a detailed report provided by Newsweek's Michael Isikoff on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show, Obama has revealed that there won't be any prosecutions of Bush administration for so-called torture. Perhaps this was the reason for so little MSM coverage on this meeting. They don't want to disappoint their audience, many of whom are still holding out hope for such prosecutions. However, the leftwing sites on the web are very vocal in their disappointment with Obama's decision including Talking Points Memo:
Yesterday morning President Obama met with representatives of several human rights and civil liberties groups in the White House's cabinet room. Joining him were his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser David Axelrod, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder. They sat down with representatives of the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Human Rights Watch, among others.
Last night on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow reported that one of the attendees warned the President he was letting George Bush's policies become his own--and that Obama was not pleased by that characterization.
...On at least one issue, though, Obama seems to have made up his mind. Isikoff reports that Obama announced his opposition to torture prosecutions--an unsurprising admission, perhaps, but one that must have disappointed many in attendance. Previously he had said that the question of investigation and prosecuting Bush administration officials was one for Holder to answer. But with Holder sitting right beside him, there's no doubt he's feeling pressure to, as they say, look forward, not backward.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
PING!
Because it will lead to Nancy going to jail. LOL
I’m usually not a troll but whenever I’m on a general-news site and people start posting about prosecutions and trials especially for Bush & Cheney I tell them tuck in early and wait for the Tooth Fairy cos it ain’t happening.
Thanks to the prez for dashing their impotent revenge fantasies in person and in no uncertain terms.
You're right, but I would add:
Torture is defined as “intending” to cause permanent physical or mental harm. No Lib can prove anyone intended to cause that harm when no one was harmed.
IMO, the primary calculation is that the Dems know that prosecuting people for keeping our country safe is a big loser for the 2010 and 2012 elections. It would also really boost fundraising for conservative and Republican causes.
Obama and his politburo have not seized sufficient control yet for show trials. Maybe after the Great Purge is complete.
Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner.
ONE-
You will know that sanity has returned to the public square when the people who are responsible for our safety are worried about the consequences of NOT using enhanced interrogation techniques.
TWO- There were easily 100 people who were plausible Attorney General candidates for Obama to choose from. Obama’s choice of Jamie Goerlock’s boss Eric Holder (arguably one of the 2 or 3 people whose ideological blinders, ignorance and stupidity was most responsible for 9-1) tells you all you need to know about where National Security sits on Obama’s list of priorities.
In a just sane world Eric Holder would not be
making decisions about Guantanamo, he would be in Guantanamo.
It is better for Obama that it doesn’t happen becuse if it did it would take down dems in the senate as well as tell the American people that there truely were very good reasons for why any of this was done and pretty much erase overnight BDS! It is better that Obama can just fan the flames of BDS anytime he needs for whatever purpose he needs.
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