White House lawyers up.
By on Feb 6th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
White House lawyers up.
“A line item buried in the president’s budget reveals the Bush administration is gearing up for emboldened legal challenges from Gitmo detainees. A brief paragraph in President Bush’s 2008 budget request shows he plans to hire nearly two dozen new Justice Department lawyers to fight suits brought by Guantanamo detainees challenging their imprisonment.”
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Go team terror.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:00 pmwe will be paying for this – and all parts of this – for decades…
February 6th, 2007 at 1:03 pmonly the very wealthy will be exempt from the debt…
Maybe he can hire back all the career lawyers that have been leaving the Civil Rights division at Justice in disgust.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:09 pmso that’s also his big plan for creating jobs?
February 6th, 2007 at 1:10 pmI wonder if this has anything to do with the recent purge of U.S. attorneys, to be replaced by hand-picked appointees that no longer need to be confirmed by the Senate, thanks to some obscure language in the PATRIOT Act.
More details here.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:13 pmUmmm… Where’s Harriet?
February 6th, 2007 at 1:14 pmWho’s gonna pay for it. I never supported this crap. And my money will help pay for it.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:19 pmAll the “lawyering up” in the world isn’t going to make these “high crimes and misdemeanors” go bye-bye for this administration. Once the investigations begin and the international tribunal is arranged, Bush & Cheney will be tried internationally and convicted.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:29 pm#2 & #7 – Is this not textbook: Taxation Without Representation???
February 6th, 2007 at 1:30 pmTime for another Boston Tea Party I suspect. Paying for a thug’s lawyers to try to bail him out with OUR money is criminal in itself!
First we are running out of foot soldiers, next, it’s government lawyers. Swell job W.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:35 pmIf the Dems had b**ls, the MonkeyPalace would be “lawyering up” in preparation for seeing their Chief Chimp thrown in jail. Or hung for treason.
Alas, the ReichWingNuts know that Dems won’t push the issue. Nixon taught the WingNuts they could get away with just about anything. Iran Contra and Reagan/Bush the Smarter only confirmed the fact no one would ever have to face scrutiny of their misdeeds.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:37 pmToo many Dems are “up in all this shit” to go after impeachment, just ask Karl. Thats why we see no balls. The Dems aren’t as different as we would like to think.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pmIt’s beginning to look like two set’s of wagon’s are circling up..One set by the evil war monger’s on the republican side and another set of the maybe not so clean enabelers on the democratic side…Hummm…Can we recall and boot every one out and just start over?….Blessings
February 6th, 2007 at 1:58 pmLooking for lawyers? Find an ambulance and wait.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:17 pmWhere the hell is MA when her fearless leader needs it’s services?
February 6th, 2007 at 2:18 pmInquiring minds might ask…
Now that’s a law job I won’t be applying for.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:23 pmThe best way to save energy is to unscrew the “curly” lights from the socket and turn them up your butt.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:28 pmDubbie better make sure his law-talkin’ guys are admitted to argue before the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, ’cause that’s where Chimpoleon meets his Waterloo.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:56 pmTripMaster – You nailed it – The recent shakeups are preparation for the storm they know is coming. Remeber, these are the same guys who set up a Supreme Court to install a President.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:58 pmThe shysters retained by the Bushland Uber Allies are in for the fight of their lives, trying to protect their masters against charges of War Crimes, Torture, Murder, Not Following the Geneva Convention, et cetera AD NAUSEUM…Inquisitor General Alberto VO5 Gonzales, David Addington, John Yoo, Don Dumbsfailed, Paul Wolfowitz, and
February 6th, 2007 at 4:17 pmCompany should all be found guilty of the above crimes. I believe the people of America should get actively involved and see to it that these Fascistic Jingoist Demagogues and War Criminals get the
same tender treatment that we gave the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials…The Fourth Reich of Bushland Uber Allies must be DESTROYED!
Here’s an idea: defund the White House. If Congress would reduce the White House budget to the level required to pay only the President’s and Vice President’s salary plus one shared secretary we’d see an end to at least some of the crap.
February 6th, 2007 at 10:14 pm