The smell of GOP fear is in the air (re torture prosecutions)

Republicans warn (AG) Holder on torture (will press to investigate Clinton admin and Congress)

That's not a deterrent. It's desperation. Clinton didn't politicize the DOJ to draft opinions supporting the use of torture, and then approve and authorized its use.

Prosecute the war criminals.

dirty hands..

If Clinton committed the similar crimes he should be investigated.

On the other hand, I don't think the minority can get very far with investigations - or that's the story we used be told.

First of all, it was the Bush administration that penned the torture memos. Clinton may have been guilty of allowing the continuing practice of rendition, but he did not advocate, or in any way try to justify the use of torture, nor did he recruit legal hacks to try and make it policy.

by the International Red Cross. They didn't file any similar complaint against Clinton.

Check out this recent Op-Ed from frothing Super NeoCon, John Bolton, who is certainly right in the thick of the torture decisions. He was the actual SecState during his tenure there. Powell was the nominal SecState ... he knew it from the moment that Bolton, a Cheney crony, was named (over Powell's objections), but he still played along ... and for that I cannot forgive him.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050502884.html

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"Despite uncertainties here, developments overseas proceed apace. Spanish Magistrate Baltasar Garzón opened a formal investigation last week of six Bush administration lawyers for their roles in advising on interrogation techniques. Garzón did so over the objections of Spain's attorney general, as he did in 1998 in proceeding against former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet. Under Spain's inquisitorial judicial system, Garzón is essentially unaccountable, whatever the views of Spain's elected government."
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:woohoo:

The shame here is that it is Spain that is taking the stand that WE should be taking. If we are truly a nation of principle, that is.

We can sure hope that the pro-torture crowd is as dumb as they seem on this.

The DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy remains obsessed with All-Things-Bill. Now, if we can get a rumor started that any female suspects were brought back to the US first, or that Valerie Plame personally recommended the policy to Bill, they'll be off and running.

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I believe that basement room at the Capitol annex where they forced Conyers to have his investigations is available.

If all the Republicans attend, they might be able to fill it.
Like everything else they have tried, this will blowback in their faces.
Can you imagine the backlash from America if the Republicans start spending taxpayer money to investigate Clinton AGAIN !


Go ahead, you assholes.
Why stop digging your grave now?

I believe that basement room at the Capitol annex where they forced Conyers to have his investigations is available.

If all the Republicans attend, they might be able to fill it.
Like everything else they have tried, this will blowback in their faces.
Can you imagine the backlash from America if the Republicans start spending taxpayer money to investigate Clinton AGAIN !


Go ahead, you assholes.
Why stop digging your grave now?

so that vein may be pretty well tapped out -- but if the Rs desperately want to inquire into Clinton's non-existent secret prisons and how prisoners were treated there, I say, let's go for it: the bottom line is that the Rs will look like obnoxious idiots