KO: Jon Turley reacts to the OLC report exonerating Bybee and Yoo.

[ProfessorPlum]

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Fuck this shit. All of the criminals are getting away scot free.

[Confusious]

1. Principles? We don't need no stickin' principles

We're the USA!

:sarcasm:

[jgraz]

2. "What we're seeing right now is a dismantling of precedent that WE created at Nuremburg."

Unbelievable that a Democratic president could support this. Just. Fucking. Unbelievable.

[lbrtbell]

6. I am so disappointed in Obama about this

Well, this and a host of other things....

[hulka38]

7. Not just a Dem President but one who was a constitutional law professor at U of C

and President of the Harvard Law Review. These days, politics encompasses everything.

[TomCADem]

3. Jon Turley Is Pretty Consistent for a Libertarian

The one great thing about KO is that he seeks all viewpoints, and does not just stick with Democrats or true blue liberals. He also puts on libertarians like Jon Turley who are willing to tear the Bush lawyers a new one.

[lbrtbell]

5. Too bad the RW'ers don't have brains enough to see this

They're too busy screaming about him being "libberul"!!!!!

[Norrin Radd]

4. kr

[ScottLand]

8. This makes me ashamed to be an American.

Shouldn't we go back and exhonerate the people we've prosecuted previously and suitably downgrade their transgressions from, say, "holocaust" to "big oops"?

There will be a price we will pay later in not prosecuting this now: the next rethug president will reconstitute the torture program.

[Stuart G]

9. K and R

[ro1942]

10. More USA Exceptionalism

Might is right,what hypocrites.

[ThomCat]

11. This is really sick, that Obama's administration

is saying that authorizing, planning and implementing the widespread torture of thousands of people, resulting in at least hundreds of reported deaths IS NOT EVEN AN ETHICS VIOLATION.

:wtf:

What system of Ethics are they working with that allows authorizing, planning and and actual torturing of thousands of people?

Again, they're not only finding that no crimes were committed, they're finding that no Ethical violations of any kind occurred. Nobody did anything wrong. :(

This totally destroys the credibility of the current Department of Justice. It shows that they are willing to put politics above the law to protect people they want to protect. It shows that the are not concerned about justice. They don't care that war crimes were certainly committed. They are invested now in the cover-up.

:grr:

Is This Change We Can Believe In?

[JDPriestly]

12. The Obama administration's failure to at least recommend disbarment l of the legal

staff who wrote the torture memos puts human rights back to the pre-WWII era.

This is President Obama's biggest mistake. History will never forgive his administration for failing to prosecute those who authorized and justified torture.

[pleah]

13. K&R

[olegramps]

14. I suppose this is part of Obama's appeasement program:

Go along to get along. Next we will be hearing about his love feast with Liz and Dick. What would have been his reaction to the Holocaust? "The war is over and we have to look forward rather than being distracted by bringing these people to justice." What is the difference between Cheney' claims that he was protecting the American citizens and the Nazi's claim that the Jews were guilty of sabotaging the German's WWI war efforts and therefore their imprisonment,torture and execution was justified.

Its a good thing for the sake of justice that Obama wasn't in charge following WWII. It seems we have two extremes in command. One justifies torture and the other turns a blind eye to the facts. For those in denial the ovens weren't crematoriums, they were oven's for baking bread for all the happy inhabitants of Auschwitz, but for the real German's of Palin's taste, these people were enemies of the Fatherland and elimination was justified.

Cheney's going about the nation bragging about his use of torture would be like Heinrich Himmler, following WWII, touring the country and bragging how he eliminated the Jewish treat. He would have been regarded by some Germans as a national hero, not unlike how Cheney is now being hailed by some of our citizens as a protector of the people when objectively both are nothing more than criminals. They are a special type of criminal, since they use their position of power to justify the commitment of atrocities in the name of the state.

[libodem]

15. Sickening

This is like a fucking nightmare. I hoped there would be Justice. Fucking man's inhumanity to man, justified. FUCCCKKKK THAAAATTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!