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Re: Good Thing

TheHeretik — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:36:43 -0000

Noted. Edited. Thanks.

Re: Hard Times

TheHeretik — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:16:48 -0000

Big numbers make me brain go numb.

Re: Hard Times

TheHeretik — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:16:04 -0000

598,000.

Re: Losing friends

TheHeretik — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:44:30 -0000

Those who leave may come back. Someday.

Re: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/01/quid-pro-ho.html

TheHeretik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:35:08 -0000

Raise your hands (or voices)! Does anybody think ANYONE will be prosecuted?

MaryL's last TPM citation gets back to the same words we have seen:
Prosecutorial and investigative judgments must depend on the facts, and no one is above the law. But where it is clear that a government agent has acted in "reasonable and good-faith reliance on Justice Department legal opinions" authoritatively permitting his conduct, I would find it difficult to justify commencing a full-blown criminal investigation, let alone a prosecution.

No one is above the law, but . . . Having a lawyer give you an opinion you ordered means never having to say you are sorry. I would love to see SOMEBODY held responsible. But response to my cry will likely be silence. Oy

Re: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/01/quid-pro-ho.html

TheHeretik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:18:41 -0000

It gets weirder. Obama admin gets ready to defend John Yoo, seeks dismissal of lawsuits. Oy.

Re: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/01/quid-pro-ho.html

TheHeretik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:45:55 -0000

"Exceedingly difficult" is Lawyer Speak for "not going to happen." In the New Age of Bipartisanship, we sail on brightly into the future. Don't look back. Or look up to closely at who ordered what. Despair? Got hope? I got plenty. Just not in these guys.

Re: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/01/quid-pro-ho.html

TheHeretik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:24:01 -0000

To Mary L and others who think words might be placed in Holder's mouth:
Note the quote cited from the Washington Times actually comes from Senator John Kyl's written questions to Holder here
C. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has suggested that the threat of criminal investigations is impairing the ability of the intelligence community to make good-faith decisions about how best to protect the country. How much does this worry you and what, if anything, will you do about it?
I would be extremely concerned about such impairment, and if I see evidence of it I will work to provide the necessary assurances. We owe our line personnel, who often risk their lives for this country, clear guidance and strong leadership. As I testified at my confirmation hearing,I believe deeply in the principle that no person is above the law. But decisions to prosecute must depend on the facts. Government officials must do everything they can to comply with the law. It is, and should be, exceedingly difficult to prosecute those who carry out policies in a reasonable and good faith belief that they are lawful based on assurances from the Department of Justice itself.

Sounds to me like Holder is not um anxious to prosecute as it would be exceedingly difficult. Now he is AG. QED.

Re: File This Under: Not Change I Can Believe In;
Cross-Reference With: Not Change At All

TheHeretik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:01:59 -0000

Irony. Not dead. Just wounded.

Re: Mess? What Mess

TheHeretik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:53:43 -0000

From the Sad But True Update Department. a word about Karzai from James Joyner: "The idea that Hamid Karzai can "do more" is predicated on the notion that he's somehow in control of what happens in Afghanistan; if so, he would be the first leader in the history of that nominal state with such influence."

Re: Question of the Day

TheHeretik — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:26:24 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBy6o1w9XrI

Re: Happy Birthday, Heretik!

TheHeretik — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:42:44 -0000

I feel like a ding dong

Re: Happy Birthday, Heretik!

TheHeretik — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:14:25 -0000

Thank you, thank you very much

Re: Should the US Pay Damages for “Extraordinary Rendition”?

TheHeretik — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:10:06 -0000

Disappearing people continues to be a war crime. Torture continues to be a war crime.

Re: Question of the Day

TheHeretik — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:27:05 -0000

Only complete passage of the radical moderate agenda will suffice.

Re: Wev

TheHeretik — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:39:08 -0000

Gregory certainly dances like a straight white guy.

Re: Supreme Ct. Considers Reviewing Indefinite Detention of U.S. Resident

TheHeretik — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:55:43 -0000

This one rates a full five Kafka, possibly six on the five point scale

Re: MSNBC: Geithner Favored for Treasury Pick

TheHeretik — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:56:31 -0000

Small world news. News on Geithner, NY Fed president, and this appointment broken by Andrea (I'm Married to former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan) Mitchell.

Re: Clinton’s Team at State

TheHeretik — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:52:11 -0000

some Obama loyalists wonder whether the same people who attacked Obama on foreign policy during the primaries can implement Obama’s agenda from State Dept. perches. . . . That is an understatement.

Re: National Security Courts

TheHeretik — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:39:49 -0000

We should resist that impluse. Always.

Re: Habeas-Case Defendents Ordered Released From Guantanamo

TheHeretik — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:55:57 -0000

This rates a full Five Kafkas . Seven years later and only now we discover there is not enough credible evidence?

Re: Recasting the War on Terrorism

TheHeretik — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:17:31 -0000

The vote against the MCA was good. But the Obama capitulation on FISA in June? Exceedingly disappointing.

Re: Question of the Day

TheHeretik — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:27:51 -0000

Wheel. Fire.

Re: Petulant's Polling Palace Pleasure Dome Open Thread

TheHeretik — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:53:04 -0000

Bon Soir

Re: Bizarre

TheHeretik — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:36:12 -0000

Big surprise. I voted for Not Bush.

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