Obama's double-flip, triple-spin, chess move of political strategy!

[brentspeak]

What he's actually really planning is to do bring Bush and Cheney to justice. Isn't it obvious? What genius!

:eyes:

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. lol

[pat_k]

2. Yes, it's really just "Double Secret Prosecution" (n/t)

[mkultra]

3. your playing checkers

[LittleBlue]

4. True. What the fuck happened?

I thought these guys were criminals.

[ClarkUSA]

10. Maybe we should also prosecute Bill Clinton for starting extraordinary rendition in 1995...

with a presidential directive. Can we see the memos regarding what the C.I.A. did under Pres. Clinton, too? Shouldn't Bubba be
investigated also? After all, Bill Clinton was the first president to outsource torture to the C.I.A. What's good for Republican
presidents who've violated the Constitution should be good for Democratic presidents who have done the same thing, right?

[rug]

5. I'm sure the pirates are cleverly wound into this plan.

[mmonk]

6. Yep, that's why he has invoked the state secrets privilege

when torture victims try to get a day in court. It's so super duper it must remain a secret.

[dionysus]

7. thou art a bag of douche...

:rofl:

[ProSense]

8. It doesn't take a genius to admit the claims were wrong.

Claims: Obama will never release the memos (he did). He's just like Bush (he's not). He'll release the memos, but they'll be heavily redacted (they weren't).


Isn't it time?

[ClarkUSA]

9. Unlike the poutrage pushers at DU, Senator Feingold relies on facts in his recent statement --->

"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."

So does the ACLU.