Young Turks: Condi Rice Answers Student's Question on Torture

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 04:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prxin-Lj5Ks   Posted on YouTube: April 30, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 30, 2009 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 2714

 
Cenk: "If anyone cares to actually follow the law, these guys are in tremendous legal trouble."

[ihavenobias]

1. K & R, but if you keep this up there won't be any videos to post tomorrow.

;)

[JDPriestly]

2. Great job in reporting this, Cenk. Thanks.

[ihavenobias]

29. He got a shout-out from Maddow and Hartmann for this. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

3. The CRESCENDO has yet to come.....

[enola fay]

4. That woman makes me sick.

I always think of her shoe shopping in NYC while people were suffering and dying in New Orleans during Katrina. I hope this bitch goes down!

[Lena inRI]

5. Very telling moment in an under-reported clip. .. .

. . .Condi was caught off her game.

Even with her double speak about "I didn't authorize . . ."

what screamed out from the clip were:

1--her koo-laid loyalty to the Bush agenda even months after being out of office

2--her shaking confidence in being invincible as she had been for the past 8 years.

Condi, your goose is cooked because . . .

here comes the judge:

Juez Baltazar Garzon



Eh, muchas gracias, Senor Cenk!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[ejbr]

6. She's fucked

and I think Bush and Cheney counted on her and Colin Powell to cave in to their madness because of the residual African American impulse to "step and fetch" to any white handler, regardless of the madness. Hopefully, we have entered a new era. In the meantime, Powell's reputation is screwed and she should go to jail.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. -100

:thumbsdown:

[ejbr]

18. My bad

point of clarification: I am also African American and am disappointed in their decision to do what they probably knew what was wrong rather than say "no" or resign. However, that is neither here nor there, they were played either way.

[ejbr]

17. Self-delete

[The Wizard]

7. Only following orders

is no defense for crimes against humanity. Guilty---Next case please.

[florida08]

9. what the heck?

nothing we would do would be outside of our legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture
Nothing? This is her defense? I'm having a Tarzan moment "nazi, nazi"..just dated myself didn't I.

[MasonJar]

10. But first Obama/Holder have to decide to investigate/prosecute

illegal acts/war crimes. That is the big sticking point at this juncture. The evidence is clear and strong. Keep the pressure on, DUers!!!! I wrote Obama last night on his web site and will continue to do so every week until he decides to do what is mandatory (by law.) Please join me in this crucial effort, DUers.

[happygoluckytoyou]

11. hope she runs for president......... another 8 years out of office for the GOP

[pleah]

12. K&R Still waiting for prosecutions.

Right on Cenk!

[ihavenobias]

15. This has the most views/comments/recs of any story at Huffington Post AND DailyKos today

I'm a little disappointed in the DU Response in that context.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/30/726357/-Condi-Rice-Pulls-A-Nixon:-When-the-President-Does-It,-That-Means-It-is-Not-Illegal

[pleah]

16. Yeah, it is odd there isn't as much attention to this

as I thought there would be.

[ihavenobias]

22. Olbermann spoke about it.

I was annoyed that he generically said the video was "on youtube" while others like Andrew Sullivan credited Cenk for discussing the story (and making the Nixon comparison) which hadn't been touched in the MSM.

[ihavenobias]

23. Addendum: Maddow apparently gave a shout out to TYT for breaking the story.

It's about time considering Matthews and KO didn't.

;)

[pleah]

24. Yep.

:)

[Seldona]

13. How are they not in jail?

[swilton]

14. I was wondering when she was going to come out of the

woodwork - Go Cenk!:bounce:

[Amonester]

25. yeah, bet she won't come out of the woodwork to any campus

for a very long time now...

she'll run away to hide somewhere

[truedelphi]

28. Some two years ago, Stanford Univ. came out

And said she woul dnot ever be offered a job with them again.


So she opposed the Adminsitration hook line and sinker. But she was stillw illing to "convey"
the orders... There shoul dbe a special place in hell for people like that - people ewho only "convey"

She didn't make the orders, and she didn't carry them out. She was opposed to them, but conveyed them none the less.

[Hissyspit]

19. .

[pleah]

20. Kick

:kick:

[Wednesdays]

21. K&R

:kick:

[Karenina]

26. . .

[truedelphi]

27. And Eichmann only "conveyed" people to the

Camps where they would find some work. Some nine million people died, but hey, he only "conveyed" them.

Oh, boy. This is gonna get good.

[BelgianMadCow]

30. flabbergasted I bookmark this, file under *Admissions of War Crimes" next to the Cheney statements

hellooooo :wow: :wtf: :mad: