Posted on 08/09/2009 6:05:34 AM PDT by VRWCTexan
Criminal investigation into CIA treatment of detainees by Eric Holder is expected
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I think the answer is that they are idiots.
It sure will be! Hope you will be joining me there along with Freepers from across the US!
We will March on DC and make our voices heard to defend our Constitution and hold government officials accountable!
Please do everything you can to be in DC from 9/11-9/12 and join us to take our country back and attend our National Free Republic Tea Party Convention! See you there!
but noting that, “as attorney general, he has the obligation to follow the law.”
Then prosecute the vote-intimidating Black Panther thugs, you racist, incompetent, affirmative action Jackson POS
Yep - tha's exactly what this is about. Let's change the subject.
GOOD!!
Make the CIA people mad.
They have the wherewithall to find out whher Obummer, the Fascist, is who he says he is.
They have some very very bad people who have the ability to return him to the Chicago slums.
People are hearing more about the things going on through the Free Republic and other Internet news.We will win believe in that..I won't lay down and let them take all my rights away from me no matter what kind of news I get..
Yep.
In his recent speech on terrorism, Obama spoke about his concern for a “legitimate legal framework, with the kind of meaningful due process and rights for the accused that could stand up on appeal.” Yet in the very same speech, Obama went on to say, “even when this process is complete, there may be a number of people who cannot be prosecuted for past crimes, but who nonetheless pose a threat to the security of the United States.” Obama, in other words, endorsed the idea of indefinite detention without trial.
The President continues to focus most of his outrage on a technique, waterboarding, that was stopped when he was still a state senator from Illinois. He prides himself on wanting to shut down Guantanamo Bay – even though the Supreme Court has ruled that habeas corpus rights extend to detainees being held there, meaning they are unlikely to receive any more rights if held in America than if they are held in Cuba. Under his leadership, the U.S. is continuing renditions, military commissions, and targeted killings of suspected al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And as Jack Goldsmith has written, the Obama Justice Department has “filed a legal brief arguing that the president can detain indefinitely, without charge or trial, members of al Qaeda, the Taliban, ‘associated forces,’ and those who ‘substantially support’ these groups, no matter where in the world they are captured.” All of this from a man who says he believes “with every fiber of my being that in the long run we also cannot keep this country safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values” – values which once upon a time he thought were undermined by these practices.
Barack Obama promised to make transparency a hallmark of his presidency – yet his Administration has resolutely refused to declassify documents requested by former Vice President Cheney that speak to the efficacy of enhanced interrogation techniques (Obama, it should be emphasized, was quite willing to release previously classified memoranda on the techniques themselves).
- Wow, that last paragraph really swings.
Obama/legal brief/indefinite detention
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/documents/memo-re-det-auth.pdf
In Obama’s America they first came for the Right Wingers,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Right Winger.
Then they came for the Republicans,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Republican.
Then they came for the sick elderly,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a sick or elderly.
Then they came for the Christians,
and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t go to church.
Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Bring it on, bitch!
You said it much better than I.
You have a way of making your point.
Long time ETL.
OT: Do you know this woman they’ve trot out re: Healthcare
You should find it interesting.
Via: http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/
Those on healthcare threads should post this as well.
Wag the Dog.
The BC issue and Health Care revolt are working.
I don’t think they will like being investigated.
It would be nice to see the Joker resume his World Apology Tour without the aid of clandestine intel. I certainly wouldn’t blame the CIA if it had a little oops.
Damn straight. I am disappointed that the Town Hall revolts have not helped publicize out 9/12 gathering. I'm betting some of these people would come, but aren't aware of it.
Here is an example of how the Republican Party could, subtly behind the scenes, help us get the message out. It isn't. It's a worthless party run by emasculated RINOs. IMO, the GOP doesn't want 9/12 to be successful because it would signal the ascendancy of conservatives, which they fear.
Let’s not get distracted.
This is just a move to throw the people out that he thinks will not be loyal to him.
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