On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:39 AM, David P. Henderson wrote: > >> >> On 17 Apr 2009, at 11:23, Kevin Callahan wrote: >> >>> >>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/17-4 >>> Bruce Fein was associate deputy attorney general under President >>> Ronald Reagan, and has authored Constitutional Peril: The Life and >>> Death Struggle for our Constitution and Democracy. >> >> Like all such articles on common dreams utter drivel. Obama's in the >> real world now not the campaign world. All common dreams proves is >> that the far left is just as loony and out of touch as the far right. > > what Russ Feingold (He was also the only Senator to vote against the > USA PATRIOT Act during its first vote) has to say: > > "The president has stated that it is not his administration's > intention to prosecute those who acted reasonably and relied in good > faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice. As I > understand it, his decision does not mean that anyone who engaged in > activities that the Department had not approved, those who gave > improper legal advice or those who authorized the program could not > be prosecuted. The details made public in these memos paint a > horrifying picture and reveal how the Bush administration's lawyers > and top officials were complicit in torture. The so-called enhanced > interrogation program was a violation of our core principles as a > nation and those responsible should be held accountable."
The above this issue sounds like one where reasonable people with some concerns for basic notions of justice could disagree. I don't see how there could be any disagreement on this one: <http://washingtonindependent.com/38335/obama-bungles-bagram> -- And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
