Reply #18: I posted this yesterday

[Sydnie]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2146870&mesg_id=2146870

I think he has asked them to cross the line and they have said NO. The comment about not prosecuting them was telling on it's face. He obviously has already made them the promise that he will not prosecute and they are smart enough to know that, eventually, this regime will be gone and there will be answers required and responsibility assigned for the actions that they are taking. The fact that we don't belong to the world court right NOW has not escaped them. They KNOW that international pressure to prosecute, whether that be here in the US or absentee prosecutions in courts all over the world, can not be guaranteed for ever.

Remember, there are CIA agents under indictment in Italy already.

And maybe, just maybe, some have finally reached the line for behaviors that they feel they can morally and personally live with. With the low level grunts that have been charged in Abu Ghirab, without anyone of real authority having to face charges, they know that the lowest man on the totem pole will be the ones to bear the brunt and it could be anyone of them wearing that bullseye at any time.

I think they have said NO and he is feeling a coup developing that he knows he can't control. I fear it won't be too long before we turn on our own in a big way ... meaning, they will silence those that they must and frighten those that are left to "get 'er done" their way.