rssLindsey Graham: They Mighta Sorta Broke the Law But It’s OK
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 10:27 am
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) doesn’t really like this hearing. He says he doesn’t “question the chairman’s motivation,” which is an elegant locution, and proceeds to assert what Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) calls “facts not in the record” — that torture worked, basically. Graham fears the criminalization of a policy debate if there are prosecutions of the Bush administration.
Then it gets a little more difficult to understand. Graham says he “takes a back seat to no one” in his love of the law, and adds that the Bush administration’s Office of Legal Counsel issued guidance about U.S. anti-torture statutes “in a way I wouldn’t have looked at them” and that he “disagree[s]” with. Waterboarding, for instance, is illegal, and he tells any member of the armed services “you will be prosecuted” for doing so. But it’s … OK for the CIA because “the Geneva Conventions did not apply in the war on terror.” That, however, was a unilateral declaration by the … Office of Legal Counsel.
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Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
Mr. Graham can sure talk around a subject. Who does he think he is kidding? Why does he not ask his friend and criminal Mr Cheney just what is the secret he is hiding from the world. Mr. Graham has no idea how cruel the British were and how much they tortured the Irish. The Brits were so very cruel to the Irish. They broke into people's homes and dragged young men out in the street in front of their families then beaten half to death on many occassions, not just one or two. Graham was right in that the Irish came to hate the British Govermnent for the dreadful treatment and interment of young men without so much as a trial. Why do you think those young men starved themselves to death?
Thank goodness there were several good men on this panel today who stood up to Graham even though he kept cutting them off before they could answer.
Comment posted May 14, 2009 @ 4:28 am
Mr. Graham can sure talk around a subject. Who does he think he is kidding? Why does he not ask his friend and criminal Mr Cheney just what is the secret he is hiding from the world. Mr. Graham has no idea how cruel the British were and how much they tortured the Irish. The Brits were so very cruel to the Irish. They broke into people's homes and dragged young men out in the street in front of their families then beaten half to death on many occassions, not just one or two. Graham was right in that the Irish came to hate the British Govermnent for the dreadful treatment and interment of young men without so much as a trial. Why do you think those young men starved themselves to death?
Thank goodness there were several good men on this panel today who stood up to Graham even though he kept cutting them off before they could answer.
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