McCain Says Lawyers Should Not Be Prosecuted for bad Advice

[ThirdWorldJohn]

McCain says that the lawyers that wrote the torture memos should be given a pass because all they did was give really bad advice about the act of torture being legal after all. And one of these lawyers sits on a court that is one notch below the SCOTUS, Namely Bybee of the 9th Court of appeals. Nice to know that a lawyer that gives such bad advice is good enough to be named by Bush to sit on that high court, right. So Bush surely found nothing wrong with the advice. Bush must have thought it was good, sound advice that allowed him to torture.

That is really something to ponder, but also what is amazing is that the Bush Regime acted on that really bad advice as though it was a legitimate defense that they could use when it came out in the open. Yea they needed to be able to say that the enhanced interrogation techniques were not against US law so they could allow the CIA to go ahead - full speed. But even the CIA said that they would like a legal get out of jail card if they used the enhanced techniques. Got that? The CIA wanted assurrance that they were absolved from any legal liability in the matter.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/17/721199/-The-Prosecution-Conundrum:-Torture-Detailed,-Nuremberg-Defense-RevivedBlanket-CIA-Immunity

So the CIA was assured and went on their merry torturing way because the Bush Regime assured all involved that it was all legal and above board. (Shudder at the Pun) So what was the need for rendition?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18709-2005Mar8.html

Why did the CIA feel the need for secret prisons?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html

And secret prison ships
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/02/9360

Why the need to hide the Ghost Detainees from the Red Cross?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E0DC1530F933A2575AC0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

WHy did the CIA order the video tapes of interrogations be destroyed? Even to a point of violating a court order?
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/cia_destroyed_supoenaed_torture_tapes_they_denied_existed/

And if it was so legal ,cause the lawyers said it was legal and Bush believed those lawyers, why does he refuse to answer questions?
*Warning, this video is of slimy individual of low intelligence trying to act presidential.*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4vLBvU1bA

Could the answer be because they knew they were breaking laws. All of them knew. Laws were not important to them at all.

Impeach Jay Bybee

http://www.slate.com/id/2216432/?from=rss