Posted on 12/01/2010 8:03:33 PM PST by GlockThe Vote
Edited on 12/02/2010 2:46:31 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
NewsletterShare Close this Share Box154 Comments | Post Comment.Wed Dec. 1, 2010 2:47 PM PST In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A "confidential" April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department
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Why? You don’t think this story is interesting?
And spare me any sympathy for Bush. Any sympathy I ever had for him went away 9 trillion dollars ago.
LOL...me too. My brother in law used to give me copies, and I read a few. A few was enough.
Reminds me of the time my mother-in-law (a REAL liberal) gave me a copy of “The People’s History of The United States” as a Christmas present. She knew I loved to read, and was a history buff.
I was kind of excited when I got it, too. So when I sat down and began reading, just a paragraph in I said to myself “WTF?”
I skipped a few pages and read a few more passages. Then skipped a few chapters to some key historical events, and read those. After ten minutes, I got up, went out to my garage and threw the book in the trash.
Funny thing was, my mother-in-law really was trying to get me a book she thought I would like. She had no idea, she just saw it on the bargain book rack at Borders, and grabbed it...:)
Agreed....and it is quite entertaining.
I think you are about three trillion short.
Bush went to 11...
You're an idiot. Seriously. Bush hasn't bashed 0bama because to do so is unPresidential...
...not because, as you imply above, that the "Bush 6" were actually under legitimate suspicion.
That Spanish case was *entirely* political.
David Corn... the first reporter to claim that Valerie Plame was a covert superdooper secret CIA agent.
A WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans got really bipartisanThanks GlockThe Vote.
If this is true, it is just a very rare example of this administration doing what is should be expected to do.
The precedent of a US President or his representatives being threatened from abroad could hurt Obama in the future. He was probably just looking out for himself.
This will tick off the Code Pink etc type terror-symps. It gives me joy to know that ; )
The Left, on the other hand, refuses to accept that we're not all living in the International Land of Oz now that their fashion model is sitting at Lincoln's desk. They cannot be placated, nor can they ever be pleased. They can be bought off, which is 0bama's only remaining recourse, but throwing Bush to the wolves is too high a price because he will almost certainly be the next one thrown.
The Right, as well, stinks of self-righteous ideologues who demand perfection while doing nothing themselves to pursue it. It all looks so easy from the sidelines, doesn't it?
You really believe that huh?
Bush didn’t even defend himself while he was President.
He went out of his way to treat Clinton with kid gloves. I suppose Clinton pre-emptively saved GWB’s backside sometime during that transition from the Florida recount and the “W”’s going missing on keyboards and when Clinton finally made his long tedious exit from the world stage. There has to be a hidden reason there why he doesn’t speak against Bill just to follow your logic.
All Presidents face some political retaliation on behalf of these foreign governments playing up to their anti-American rhetoric. Spain is one of the worst since they rid themselves of their prior pro-American leader. Obama is a member of the political class doing what they all do. Protecting each other’s hides because one day it could be them. Not that GWB needed protection from trumped up charges in a foreign government. American citizens would not allow their President to be brought to a show trial in an International court and the fire that would reign down on anyone who tried to arrest one of ours would be enough deter them.
GWB’s has his faults but in this instance the simplest explation is the real one. The guy believes it’s beneath him to tear down a duly elted U.S. President, at least since he became one.
I disagree with him but I disagreed with him many times. Bush did what he wanted anyway.
The only relevance this story has to me is I can imagine how the nutcases on the left are reacting.
Illuminist brothers looking out for each other.
Just as Bush protected Klinton from facing prosecution for his many felonies.
Ohhhhhh, the DUmmies are NOT going to be pleased about this. (putting on hazmat suit to see the meltdown) I’m sure PJ or Charles Hendricksen will be along with a DUmmie Funnies on the subject soon.
This WH allows a "reporter" from Mother Jones press credentials? WTH is wrong with these people? David Corn is relevant on MSNBC but that's where the commie puke should stay. Not be allowed in the WH press room.
Agreed. Glock has a severe case of BDS and his DU trolling is showing. Anyone who would take Corn’s word for anything is indeed an idiot suspect!
What an American lefty wet dream! Working with foreign Marxists in Spain to run a political trial against Booooosh. Globalism’s injustice department will be fun, huh?
And how many times did Obama trot Eric Holder out to threaten the Bush administration officials with prosecution?
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