Reply #18: Geez...

[gcomeau]

1. Because I have a pulse, more than two functioning neurons, eyes and ears which is all that is required to know what the Republicans would do with that gift from heaven above and how it would derail all other activities... Watergate isn't even remotely similar to this situation in either act, surrounding circumstances, or political environment... and Obama didn't go out of his way to be highly specific in his language of who he wasn't pursuing prosecutions against by accidental slip of the tongue. he didn't mean to say "we're not pursuing prosecutions against anyone" and then totally unintentionally insert the qualifier "CIA officers who relied in good faith on Justice Department briefings" because of some freaking verbal tic.

2. It was perfectly attuned. Your failure to comprehend the argument is your issue.

3. I DON'T think a jury wouldn't think the same. It was illegal, and they'd be acquitted. You know, there was an actual REASON I spent all that time explaining that "illegal" and "prosecutable" weren't always the same thing. I wasn't just spending all that time writing those sections for personal amusement.