Posted on 01/30/2006 3:25:32 PM PST by Anthem
They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it. A NEWSWEEK investigation.
Feb. 6, 2006 issue - James Comey, a lanky, 6-foot-8 former prosecutor who looks a little like Jimmy Stewart, resigned as deputy attorney general in the summer of 2005. The press and public hardly noticed. Comey's farewell speech, delivered in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, contained all the predictable, if heartfelt, appreciations. But mixed in among the platitudes was an unusual passage. Comey thanked "people who came to my office, or my home, or called my cell phone late at night, to quietly tell me when I was about to make a mistake; they were the people committed to getting it right—and to doing the right thing—whatever the price. These people," said Comey, "know who they are. Some of them did pay a price for their commitment to right, but they wouldn't have it any other way."
One of those people—a former assistant attorney general named Jack Goldsmith—was absent from the festivities and did not, for many months, hear Comey's grateful praise. In the summer of 2004, Goldsmith, 43, had left his post in George W. Bush's Washington to become a professor at Harvard Law School.
...Goldsmith was actually the opposite of what his detractors imagined. For nine months, from October 2003 to June 2004, he had been the central figure in a secret but intense rebellion of a small coterie of Bush administration lawyers. Their insurrection, described to NEWSWEEK by current and former administration officials who did not wish to be identified discussing confidential deliberations, is one of the most significant and intriguing untold stories of the war on terror.
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To those with whom I argued, back in '01, that the US had no history of torturing POW's and that there were not going to be abuses at Gitmo, I apologize for my foolish ignorance.
RIGHT! It's "Flush the Koran" Newsweek. I am sorry but until they publish a front page apology for publishing a fraudelent story last yeat that was out right Al Qeda propaganda, Newsweek has NO crediblity as a "news" source. Nice try DU.
Journalistic Fraud. If you cannot name names it is rumor and innuendo NOT news. Even a High School Journalism student would know better then to publish this. This story does not even warrent an F. It gets an I. Incompetent, Incomplete and Incoherent
"To those with whom I argued, back in '01, that the US had no history of torturing POW's"
Every one does. "Torture" has been redefined to be what most penetentiaries do.
"and that there were not going to be abuses at Gitmo, I apologize for my foolish ignorance."
There's abuses in every prison in the world. Catch up.
No enough 'abuses' at Gitmo IMHO, we're fighting beheaders here, killers of innocent children. Torture them all to death if it saves one American soldier's life, or any innocent life.
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/politics/n_9353/
I saw a guy on with Dan Abrams today who worked with these guys; he doesn't remember it QUITE the same way these guys do.
...the ignorance continues...
torture: defined as embarrasing men by making them disrobe in front of one another; causing them to perform unusual physical manuvers; etc etc etc
sounds kind of familiar to me...sounds like my seventh grade gym class.
So there are partisan lies, told by Leftist Activists. Anyone surprised?
Start with Oct 2001 and Afghanistan. Media either lied or got it wrong. Liberation of Iraq, lied or got it wrong. Abu Graib. Lied or got it wrong. Fallugha lied or got it wrong. Bush National Guard Records. Lied or got it wrong. Downing Street Memo. Lied or got it wrong. 3 elections in Iraq and 2 in Afganistan Lied or got it wrong. Hurricane Katerina coverage. Media either lied or got it wrong. Fritzmus. Lied or got it wrong. NSA story. Lied or got it wrong.
So either the Establishment Media is grossly incompetent or deliberately lying. Either way your assumption that THIS story is factual based on the documented evidence of continuous misconduct on the part of the Junk Journalists represents either excessive naivete or a willingness to believe the lies for ideological reasons. So WHICH are you? A naive fool or a political bigot?
They quietly obstructed the war.
At each step along the way, just ask yourself what we would have done during the forties. And how long we would have tolerated men like these in positions of wartime responsibility.
Ed Rollins said in his book that the "Reagan Revolution" died the moment he picked Bush rather than Laxalt as his running mate. The Reagan inspired "Contract with America" died because Gingrich jumped in front of the parade and led it down a blind ally. There is no desire on the part of either party, nor any leading pols, to sustain a free republic. They have all accepted the "Rockefella's" concept of trilateral powers -- eerily like Orwell's prediction.
I don't know what "column" you're part of, but it's cracking.
I am a political bigot. I hate pols who agglomerate power in ever greater amounts. Especially when it's based on "terrorist attacks" or "acts of war" that don't stand up to reasoned analysis.
Their shills who parrot the party line on public forums just disgust me.
Try reading everthing available, and then using your own reasoning capacity. That is if the truth is important to you, as opposed to being a loyal member of one gang or another. There was a time when "conservatives" opposed collectivism.
“Niebuhr’s book Moral Man and Immoral Society says it’s not enough to sit in an ivory tower and say, I believe certain things, therefore I’m among the just,” Comey says. “Particularly Christians, he believed, had an obligation to participate in the life of their community.”Thanks. I didn't know a lot about Comey. I like what he has to say. A man with a conscience.
BINGO!!
Only your "highly reasoned" and "deep analysis" counts, right?
When why, oh why, does it seem that otherwise normal and intelligent people in the administration (even a few leftovers from the last administration) can leave their jobs with their mouths zipped tight, and a few "tools" run out the door right into the arms of the adoring press to tell all about the evil incantations and rovian spells cast in the dark recesses of "bush world"?
Get a life.
Get some persepctive.
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