Rachel Maddow: Jonathan Turley's Impassioned Case for Prosecuting Torture/Cheney

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MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - March 23, 2009: Jon Turley makes impassioned case for prosecuting alleged torture.

"It's like a bank robber calling up and asking (the President) to debate bank robbery. The President would say 'listen fellow, that's a crime.' But of course he hasn't said that with Dick Cheney. He can't say that. Instead, he says, you know, 'how long will it take for us to reconcile our values.' These aren't just our values. They're the law. He should be saying 'what you are describing is a crime,' and if he would allow an investigation into well-defined war crimes, Dick Cheney wouldn't be making public statements, he'd be surrounded by criminal defense council.

And yet, the President refuses to allow the investigation ofwar crimes and we just found from the International Red Cross, also, the definitive body on torture, found that this was a real torture program and yet the President is having a debate with the guy over whether it was good policy."

"Cheney's dialoguing."