Posted on 02/20/2009 9:20:45 AM PST by mojito
....The parallels with today are clear, and so are the lessons. Then, as in recent years, some were willing, in the name of security, to trade away the people's rights as if they were written in sand, not stone. For much of this decade, we have read about and witnessed such abuses as the scandal at Abu Ghraib, the disclosure of torture memos and the revelations about the warrantless surveillance of Americans.
So what is to be done about the abuses of the Bush years? Some say do nothing, and a few Senators even tried to make Attorney General Eric Holder promise in his confirmation hearings to launch no prosecutions for Bush-era lawbreaking. At the opposite end of the spectrum, others say that even if it takes many years and divides the country and distracts from the urgent priority of fixing the economy, we must prosecute Bush Administration officials to lay down a marker. The courts are already considering congressional subpoenas that were issued earlier as well as claims of privilege and legal immunities. Those cases will stretch out for some time, as would prosecutions--taking even a decade or longer. Moreover, it is easier for prosecutors to net those far down the ladder than those at the top, who set the tone and the policies.
There is another option, a middle ground whose overarching goal is to find the truth: we need to get to the bottom of what happened--and why--to make sure it never happens again.
One path to that goal is to appoint a truth-finding panel. We could develop and authorize a person or group
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Yes, they are. Who should Leahy be compared to? Himmler? Goebbels? Any idea?
How Soviet of the Democrats.
And don’t forget, a guilty verdict is not sufficient.
You must torture them till the sign a confession and admit they crimes in public.
Leahy leaks and so does Lenin, so how do you tell them apart?
Lenin probably still pays his taxes.
OK Pat - we’ll give you your hearings when you give us ours into your deadly intelligence leaks in the 80’s and 90’s. How many covert agents lives did you take?
If Obama is going to be successful in his quest to turn the US into a third-world dictatorship, certainly having show trials of opposition politicians is a necessary part of the formula.
If I were attempting to ascertain the truth, Sen. Leahy would be one of the last people I’d volunteer to do the digging.
These traitors sure think they got us licked...Leaky will end up being tried in a tribunal once we start rounding up the people involved in this coup!
We need a Citizens Truth Squad for a lawsuit against Leahy, Pelosi, Frank, Reid and the numerous pilferers. Maybe it’s time to sue the Congress for misuse of taxpayer monies, and for pushing the subprime loans...for not listening about Fannie and Freddie during the last 8 yrs when they were warned.. let’s include everyone’s losses on the stock market, and house depreciations, and there should be some ambulance chaser interested in the suit. We can make it a Class Action Suit with every taxpayer getting a piece of the pie. Enough is enough, so let’s find a conservative state where some judges may see it our way.
We would have to sue them as individuals who have harmed us individually.
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