Monday, April 20, 2009
The Torture Memos are being Read Around the World: Read this Scottish Article, " Obama's Shame"
The Whole World is watching HOW we as a Country handle this...and they are watching how Obama handles it....click the title to read the Scotsman Article.
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Excellent article.
But his further decision to rule out any prosecution of the CIA operatives involved in applying the techniques has brought a flood of criticism from liberal commentators who fear the President, despite his own objections to the methods, has now become complicit in their application.
David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law Centre, and the author of Justice At War: The Men and Ideas That Shaped America's 'War on Terror', said: "The four legal memos released by the Obama administration on Thursday confirm in excruciating detail that the Bush administration employed twisted and macabre legal reasoning to authorise the unspeakable – the torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of human beings.
So I have to wonder-- what is the method of Obama's madness? He himself does not have the time & resources to prosecute the torturer's, but put the info out there for someone else to go after?
His hands are full & frankly I would rather have him
be focusing on Health Care & Education than mired in prosecuting the bush criminals.
I don't have an answer Fran...I wish I did...and on another level is he trying to let the Evidence Flood the airwaves, is he trying to let "Doscovery" lead to the prosecution ? is the Executive branch going to take any stand on this other than " looking forward ?"
Last night Sheldon Whitehorse was on with rachel and he pointed out that all the memos coming out now are
concerning- and that the administration can not just claim to look forward....and now cheney wants more released ( and for once I am saying well,, hell's bells let's make the sob happy)....maybe when the evidence becomes overwhelming then Obama's people can pursue- also on rachel it was revealed there are a bunch of investigations going on that we don't know about that are going to bring forth even more evidence....
but I don't know anymore......
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