Reply #44: What full confessions? Who has "confessed", in the legal sense?

[LooseWilly]

Statements made on Fox News are not admissible in court. There is no way to charge anyone for perjury for lying on Fox News (else the entire on-air staff would be behind bars), and so Cheney et. al. can simply claim that they were employing hyperbole to make their points on air.

The memos are all couched in a patina of legalese, and hence will require some time to craft a strategy to unravel the pseudo-legal opinions under which all this activity took place, before a case ought to be taken into court.

Now that Obama has publically stated that Holder should be the one to make the decision, he's taken the right step. He may not've done as much as you and I would like, or done it as quickly as we'd've liked, but he's moving in the right direction.

The notion that the trials should be starting by the end of next week is rather ridiculous. Even if they did have confessions drawn up and signed and witnessed by an officer of the court, they still would need at least a month to begin the trial.

If it takes more than six months, then I'll get suspicious. Until then, it is only reasonable to let the slow cogs of the justice system grind away...