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Title: Cheney’s Disdain For The Law Is Appalling
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
URL Source: http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/ ... g/?cxntfid=blogs_bob_barr_blog
Published: Sep 9, 2009
Author: Bob Barr
Post Date: 2009-09-09 20:04:56 by Dakmar
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Views: 107
Comments: 4
When Attorney General Eric Holder last month announced he was naming a special prosecutor to determine if CIA personnel had violated federal laws against torturing prisoners during the prior administration of George W. Bush, former Vice President Cheney went ballistic. Even though Holder made clear the reach of the special prosecutor’s jurisdiction would extend only to those who had exceeded even the broad legal “justification” for torture provided by lawyers in the Bush Justice Department, Cheney found Holder’s move outrageous. Obviously, Cheney believes that so long as violations of federal law were committed by persons in a previous administration, the perpetrators should be forever thereafter immune from being held accountable for their offenses. To even suggest otherwise apparently strikes the former vice president as a purely “political move,” for which “there’s no other rationale,” according to Cheney. Evidently, Cheney has never read of, or has long forgotten the fact that — as noted for, example, by our nation’s very first vice president, John Adams – ours is a ”government of laws, and not of men.” To our immediate past vice president, such sentiments represent nothing more than “partisan politics.” Thankfully, our current attorney general agrees with Mr. Adams.
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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)
I hate to agree with DoucheBag Holder, but, I wish him the very best of luck on this one. Take bigdick, and all, and I do mean all, those around his sorry ass down.
4000 years of western tradition doesn't hurt either :)
In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report. Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject. 9/9/9 and 3 pair
#2. To: Lod (#1)
I hate to agree with DoucheBag Holder
#3. To: Dakmar (#0)
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so." ~ Josh Billings
#4. To: All (#3)
2009-09-09 22:44:55
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so." ~ Josh Billings
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