http://washingtonindependent.com/41177/leahy-calls-on-bybee-to-testify National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://washingtonindependent.com/41177/leahy-calls-on-bybee-to-testify/comment-page-1#comment-35077 Dr. Dan 2000 Fri, 01 May 2009 02:36:07 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=41177#comment-35077 Attorney David Addington would be the star witness, the John Dean of the hearings --- if Leahy et. al. ever got around to it. Across how many administrations have Addington, Cheney, and Rumsfeld been outsmarting Congress and the political process? How about starting with the Iran-Contra hearings? Who started that cocaine drug importation scheme? Who's making money from selling Tamiflu? Did swine flu send a message to President Obama when his driver in Meico City died the next day? Did the 747 fly-by - unauthorized by the President - through Wall Street send a message about who in the White House wasn't under the President's control? Barton Gellman has already told the story in Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency so the Bybee inquest would slowly unfurl a long pattern of above the law, behind the law, around the law, and beneath the law by Attorney Addington and his graduate school drop-out friends Cheney and Rumsfeld. Great patriots and public servants they have been -- but President Obama was right --- when you drop out of school you don't just hurt yourself; you hurt your country. Addington is the Constitutional brains behind Bybee and Woo. But the sad part of it was that it took so little to convince former President Bush that enhanced interrogation would be okay. Attorney David Addington would be the star witness, the John Dean of the hearings — if Leahy et. al. ever got around to it. Across how many administrations have Addington, Cheney, and Rumsfeld been outsmarting Congress and the political process? How about starting with the Iran-Contra hearings? Who started that cocaine drug importation scheme? Who's making money from selling Tamiflu? Did swine flu send a message to President Obama when his driver in Meico City died the next day? Did the 747 fly-by – unauthorized by the President – through Wall Street send a message about who in the White House wasn't under the President's control? Barton Gellman has already told the story in Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency so the Bybee inquest would slowly unfurl a long pattern of above the law, behind the law, around the law, and beneath the law by Attorney Addington and his graduate school drop-out friends Cheney and Rumsfeld. Great patriots and public servants they have been — but President Obama was right — when you drop out of school you don't just hurt yourself; you hurt your country. Addington is the Constitutional brains behind Bybee and Woo. But the sad part of it was that it took so little to convince former President Bush that enhanced interrogation would be okay.

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/41177/leahy-calls-on-bybee-to-testify/comment-page-1#comment-29253 Dr. Dan 2000 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:36:07 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=41177#comment-29253 Attorney David Addington would be the star witness, the John Dean of the hearings --- if Leahy et. al. ever got around to it. Across how many administrations have Addington, Cheney, and Rumsfeld been outsmarting Congress and the political process? How about starting with the Iran-Contra hearings? Who started that cocaine drug importation scheme? Who's making money from selling Tamiflu? Did swine flu send a message to President Obama when his driver in Meico City died the next day? Did the 747 fly-by - unauthorized by the President - through Wall Street send a message about who in the White House wasn't under the President's control? Barton Gellman has already told the story in Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency so the Bybee inquest would slowly unfurl a long pattern of above the law, behind the law, around the law, and beneath the law by Attorney Addington and his graduate school drop-out friends Cheney and Rumsfeld. Great patriots and public servants they have been -- but President Obama was right --- when you drop out of school you don't just hurt yourself; you hurt your country. Addington is the Constitutional brains behind Bybee and Woo. But the sad part of it was that it took so little to convince former President Bush that enhanced interrogation would be okay. Attorney David Addington would be the star witness, the John Dean of the hearings — if Leahy et. al. ever got around to it. Across how many administrations have Addington, Cheney, and Rumsfeld been outsmarting Congress and the political process? How about starting with the Iran-Contra hearings? Who started that cocaine drug importation scheme? Who's making money from selling Tamiflu? Did swine flu send a message to President Obama when his driver in Meico City died the next day? Did the 747 fly-by – unauthorized by the President – through Wall Street send a message about who in the White House wasn't under the President's control? Barton Gellman has already told the story in Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency so the Bybee inquest would slowly unfurl a long pattern of above the law, behind the law, around the law, and beneath the law by Attorney Addington and his graduate school drop-out friends Cheney and Rumsfeld. Great patriots and public servants they have been — but President Obama was right — when you drop out of school you don't just hurt yourself; you hurt your country. Addington is the Constitutional brains behind Bybee and Woo. But the sad part of it was that it took so little to convince former President Bush that enhanced interrogation would be okay.

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