WJ CSPAN-Viet Dinh--Time to rein in the Special Prosecutor

[Skidmore]

One of the * Assistant Atty Generals involved in the torture memos and the Patriot Act development.

[tsuki]

1. How does one "rein in" a special prosecutor? Does he mean

that it is time to make the SP toe the Republican Party line?

[Skidmore]

2. Means Rs want to be able to prosecute with impunity but

they don't want investigation to be used against them.

[Neil Lisst]

3. Viet Dihn is a raving lunatic. Look, he's howling at the moon!

oy

[Tesla]

5. Why is he alluding they can't find anything....

do you think this is for nothing?

[Neil Lisst]

7. Anyone who can get on TV and say what he did with a straight face

... is not to be believed.

If you are appearing on TV today to say "this needs to be shut down now," then you are a Bush-Cheney lackey.

[Neil Lisst]

4. A caller just ripped Viet Dinh's nut sack off.

This guy was ON IT! He sounded like an African American in his 30-50s. He nailed this sleazy apologist. This guy should never be allowed to work anywhere near any level of government.

If you want to know why South Vietnam lost, it's because all their leadership were corrupt, talentless, bought weasels like Viet Dinh.

[slor]

11. I heard him...

and yes he did put the smackdown on his ass.

[Hubert Flottz]

24. He Boom Boom Bushco long time!

If you catch my drift.

[liveoaktx]

41. VIDEO

Selected comments including stammer

[Skidmore]

6. Smarmy subtle way to defame Fitzgerald--he's a good man

who's been appointed to a position that drives him to overreach is essential what Dinh is saying.

The first caller nailed him on that fallacy. The first caller also made an excellent point in stating that Cheney has been in high levels of government for decades and there was no way he didn't know the meaning of the information he was collecting and using. He certainly understood the concept of the word "confidential".

[Neil Lisst]

18. The rightwing claiming Fitz is a runaway prosecutor!!

These guys spent 7 years trying to find ANYTHING to go after Clinton, just a special prosecutor on retainer, and another ten years on his appointment, Cisneros.

For a bj and a guy who paid off his mistress.


Way to go, Moral Captains! You're still batting .000!!!

[Career Prole]

8. Wow! He's a major bushbot!

And he's sticking to the script.
There's the "grand jury will indict a ham sandwich" quote...
Hey Dinh, when you clowns elect ham sandwiches you force us to indict ham sandwiches.

[Skidmore]

12. And the criminalization of politics saw.

He also implied that that somehow the nation was unable to debate on disagreement on policy and was using the legal system as an imperfect way to debate. Nevermind that debate was stifled and information was shaped to present a stilted case for war. Please someone call in and finish the job that the first caller was doing so well.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. "When you clowns elect ham sandwichs you force us to indict ham sandwichs"

"When you clowns elect ham sandwiches you force us to indict ham sandwiches."

Brilliant meme! Spread it around, especially when a Bushbot tries the ham sandwich gambit. Thanks!

[Skidmore]

21. LOL

[kestrel91316]

38. Wow, did somebody actually SAY THAT? Give him a medal!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. I think Career Prole said it first. It is fabulous!

See post #8 above:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5188031#5188096

[slor]

9. This fucker is amazing!

I cannot believe the shit he is spewing...He better be damn glad I got through last week, and cannot call again so soon, or I would be all over his lying ass!

[notadmblnd]

31. I missed this guy

was he as bad as Curtis May? I heard you on that show and you did a great job.

[slor]

36. Thank you!

He was every bit the liar that may was.

[sendero]

10. Oh I don't know..

.... during the Clinton adminstration the SP went on for what, about 7 years. I'd say we have 5 more years.

[KharmaTrain]

13. C-SPAN's At It Again

The meme on Monday was "Plame really wasn't a NOC"
The meme on Tuesday was "The investigation is "out of control""
The meme on Wedneday was "perjury is a technicality"
Today's meme is "out of control Prosecutor"...

They're really stovepiping the wing wing quotes and soundbites out there...the misinformation campaign continues.

Now I don't remember C-SPAN doing shows like these during the Clinton inquisition.

[Skidmore]

14. If this administration's idea of an excellent attorney is on the

order of this smarmy SOB, no wonder we have a government run amok. He's just as crooked as Cheney and Rove.

[Cassandra]

28. I think this guy became a repuke...

because of his anti-communist views. For understandable reasons, he sees things in black and white and has allowed himself to be fooled into thinking that Democrats are really commies in disguise.

[DemonFighterLives]

15. this guy is terrible

A legal eagle that is able to look the other way when the pukies are committing crime on top of crime. Very sad.
Fitzanta Rocks!

[KharmaTrain]

16. Fitzgerald Really Didn't Have Authority???

:wtf:

Did I just hear that right? Fitzgerald has abused his power? A GAO investigation?

This guy can't seperate the Independent Counsel law that is passe and the Special Consel mandate that Fitzgerald has...two different animals.

What a disengenuous liar!

[Cassandra]

22. Starr was told to find something, anything, on Clinton.

Fitzgerald was told to investigate a possible crime wherever that takes him. Very different mandate.

[KharmaTrain]

23. The Difference Between An IP & Special Counsel

The Independent Prosecutor was appointed by Congress...that's who empowered Starr and allowed him to expand his investigation at a whim. This investigation still falls under the control of the Justic Department of the Executive branch...Fitzgerald, while operating under a special mandate, is still responsible to Gonzalez and the DOJ. There's a big difference!

If rumors can be believed, I suspect, Mr. Fitzgerald is holding a new bill this morning for a second grand jury that would be the way he could widen the investigation...and only then with the approval of the judges.

[KharmaTrain]

26. Caller Nails Him On Talking Points

And he stutters...yeah, right there were no talking points :sarcasm:

Thank goodness for all the callers this morning that can see through this bullshit.

[Career Prole]

29. I noticed that too. When forced off-script

he stutters badly.
"da-da-da-da-da...who, me? talking points? da-da-da-what's that?"
:rofl:

[Cassandra]

17. I had been wondering what had happened with Henry Cisneros.

This idiot didn't mention that the payment they were chasing Cisneros for was to his mistress.
Any-excuse-Repukes.

[Skidmore]

20. Like he wants us to believe that he is an unbiased and

disinterested party after he SERVED for three years as a member of this administration and wrote policy for them? You wanna buy a bridge cheap?

[desi]

32. Not only did he "serve" the Bush administration

Mr. Viet Dinh made the rounds of all the talking head shows and scream TeeVee shoutfests during the Clinton impeachment. He "earned" his position in the Bush Cabal by appearing on every show that would have him to tell us that Starr was investigating serious crimes. It's a shame that an intelligent attorney prostitutes himself much the same way mAnn Coulter does.

[mzteris]

34. He's on the short list

for SC judge.......

[Skidmore]

25. Caller asks about consequences for treason and

Dinh started stuttering. Did you see his face?

[Skidmore]

27. Hahaha!! He's really stuttering now, just like he did

before the Senate subcommittee investigating torture. Guy called him on his use of RNC talking points.

[Cassandra]

30. His tongue just became unhinged.

Nice match for his brain.

[Hubert Flottz]

33. He's speaking in Morse Code . . . _ _ _ . . .

Or "Unknown tongues." He must be a Moonie or a holy roller who shoots Coca Cola.

[SoCalDem]

35. That guy's a piece of work

Nothing he says should be taken vbery seriously.. Whenever these people start spouting off, someone needs to dig up their pontifications during the Clinton witch hunt.. It would amaze and confuse ..to see how they could be so eager to dismantle a system that they were so eager to support, when they were on offense instead of defense:)

[kentuck]

37. Did anyone point out ?

That he was appointed by the Administration at the request of the CIA, not the Democrats?

[janx]

40. Ah, but the RW talking point on that one is that

"the CIA is out to undermine the president." ;-)

See? They've got it covered! ;-) :rofl: