Mukasey’s Bleating Conceals His Fear

[kentuck]

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Things were going along pretty well for the Bush Administration Alumni Association. Sure, they were out of their old offices, but things were good. Obama adopted their wars as his own, the economy has sputtered along long enough to have become (in the public’s mind) at least as much Obama’s fault as theirs (thus the cries of “deficits! deficits! deficits!” from those who launched us into two wars), and most of the BAAA have landed in cushy lucrative new digs.

Then Obama had to ruin it by getting bin Laden. Suddenly, all the old discussions are back — at least as far as torture goes — and this has at least some of them very worried, like Michael Mukasey.

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Tomorrow, two years later, BAAA will be back on the Sunday talk shows, bleating about torture. “But it worked!” they’ll cry.

Sorry, folks, but “the ends justify the means” is an excuse, not a legal justification, and as Marcy noted in her post, it’s also a lie. Getting caught on that one is the last straw for BAAA. Without, they’ve got nothing to shield themselves from prosecution — if not here, then elsewhere.
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http://firedoglake.com/2011/05/07/mukaseys-bleating-conceals-his-fear/