UPI: McCain: Torture memo prosecution bad idea
Posted on 04/26/2009 10:25:50 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Arizona Sen. John McCain suggested today that the push to investigate and possibly prosecute Bush administration officials who crafted the legal basis for the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques," such as waterboarding, may have grown from a desire to "settle old political scores."
Appearing on CBS' Face The Nation Sunday, the former Republican presidential nominee, who was himself tortured as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese, said, "Are you going to prosecute people for giving bad legal advice?" He suggested that Washington should ignore calls to investigate who was behind government lawyers writing memos which gave legal cover to the use of torture on detainees.
"We need to put this behind us," he told host Bob Schieffer. "We need to move forward. We need a united nation, not a divided one."
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so no real republicans on the shows. or, sadly, real republicans but no conseratives.
MAY have????
No shiiite Johnnie...what gave you the first clue??
Radical marxism does not want to just beat the opposition, they want to destroy it.
Their leader is naive, weak and arrogant, a very dangerous combination.
Absolutely not.
If EVER there was a false premise it is that one.
This is priceless—even from McCain. Who decied that Bybee’s legal advice was “bad”? Who has decided that waterboarding is “torture”? He buys into all of the Left’s rules.
While I think it’s obvious the present attempts at prosecution are political payback and would fail miserably if they ever went to trial, I’m not sure the defenses I’ve seen floated are a road we want to go down.
Policymakers ask attorneys for a legal interpretation.
Attorneys can’t be prosecuted because “they’re only giving legal advice.”
Policymakers can’t be prosecuted because they’re “acting on advice of legal counsel.”
Those who implement the policies can’t be prosecuted because they’re following legal orders.
So apparently nobody at all can be held responsible for any illegal actions of the government. Today, this excuse is used to protect conservatives and Republicans. Tomorrow, will it be used to protect egregious violations of the Constitution by Obama and his administration?
There have got to be valid defenses based on the law not being violated rather than conceding the law was violated but nobody can be held responsible.
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Did you just figure this out, you jerk, McCain? You are as responsible as anyone for keeping this bogus “torture” issue alive. In fact, without your “bipartisan help,” we probably wouldn’t be seeing this happen. Jerk.
I Dont trust a damn word this POS McCain has to say, he wouldnt know the meaning of character and honesty if it hit him in the face.
McCain’s flawed premise to begin with is that endorsing enhanced interrogation techniques are bad legal advice. Instead of defending the actions taken by the Bush administration to save American lives, he sidesteps the obvious and makes it into an issue of bureaucratic legalese instead of admitting that he is wrong about water boarding as a technique to gain critical intelligence from terrorists that ascribe to no civilized laws of warfare. He made opposing water boarding as a former POW a seminal campaign issue. He tied it. He should ride it. Now this turd wants to do a side slip for more political traction in 2010. What a slimy scumbag.
How do you unite a nation behind a party that wants to destroy it?
"It was bad advice," McCain said of the arguments laid out in the memos recently released by the Obama administration, which outlined the harsh interrogation techniques authorized for use by the Bush White House.
Mister McCain.
Why do you not say that this is an horrific and Richter-scale scandalous abuse of presidential power, and that the current, and alleged "president" values political score settling OVER our security?
The content of the memos is a trivial issue over the ABUSE OF POWER!
Get it?
Sheesh...
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America is a hell of a lot weaker than it was on January 20, 2009. It’s only a matter of time before the Islamofascists clobber us again.
Somebody get the hook - time to leave the stage John!!
America has NEVER, EVER TORTURED anyone the way other tyrannical countries have tortured Americans and other people.
To even equate what we did to terrorists as being the same kind of brutal treatment that John received while a POW is delusional.
And .. our treatment of the terrorists DOES NOT STOP other countries from using even worse tactics on Americans. After all, we haven’t beheaded anybody.
The Dems wil never forgive the impeachment of “Ole Bill.” Hence, they will not rest until they get a criminal trial of Bush or Cheney. No matter how long it takes and no matter how many Bush or Cheney underlings they go through the Dems will get their criminal trial. Possibly they may settle for a “Truth Commission” with a public humiliation of Bush and Cheney. though I doubt this.
B I N G O!!!!! This is the most concise, accurate statement about this administration that I have seen in a long time.
“We need a united nation, not a divided one.”
Will never happen, case in point, Obama and the liberals going after Bush to, as McCain said “even the score”. Liberals want compromise,compromise, compromise until you are doing it their way.That is the goal and they will not stop until they get 100% of what they want. The conservatives lost it years ago when they started to compromise.
I encourage all to take 1 hour and read Civil Disobedience
By Henry David Thoreau - 1849
It is online at:
http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
One of my favorite parts is : Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others, as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders, serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man,.....
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