Let the parade of torture supporters begin: Lindsey Graham

[ProSense]

It's simply not how our system of justice is supposed to work. "Bygones" is not the appropriate response to the evidence of criminal wrongdoing contained in the torture memos.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) added that the idea of "criminalizing legal advice after one administration is out of the office is a very bad precedent.... I think it would be disaster to go back and try to prosecute a lawyer for giving legal advice that you disagreed with to a former president."

But we're not just dealing with an instance of bad legal advice; we're talking about high-ranking administration officials establishing and justifying a system that permits war crimes.

Failing to criminalize crimes is what really sets "a very bad precedent."

link

Should just add these to my signature:

The Empty Circularity of the Lastest Batch of OLC Torture Memos :

This defense was always a stretch, given the transparent weakness of the legal analysis in the memos (later withdrawn as faulty by the Bush Administration). With the latest release of torture memos, however, this defense completely falls to pieces.

Scott Horton: Revealing the Secrets in Room 101

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Would it also be wrong to prosecute a theif after he's left the bank? n/t

[xxqqqzme]

2. Or after a

woman has terminated a pregnancy?

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Huh?

[JayMusgrove]

5. There is nothing illegal about a woman terminating a pregnancy!

Sorry, that analogy doesn't work.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. LOL!!! What?

Would it be wrong to prosecute a thief after a woman terminated her pregnancy?

I really don't see what you're getting at, but it sounds funny as hell.

[JayMusgrove]

3. Yeah, just let "bygones be bygones" and who cares about $???

Sarcasm is heavy as is the hypocrisy of the Republican Party members.

[ProSense]

7. After Calling Waterboarding Torture In December, David Rivkin Pens Op-Ed Defending Its Use

After Calling Waterboarding Torture In December, David Rivkin Pens Op-Ed Defending Its Use

[ProSense]

8. The Torture Lobby

The Torture Lobby

[pat_k]

9. . . . the people with whom Obama wishes to "forge a common future" n/t