Mukasey = Obstruction of Justice through a refusal to investigate the Administration.

Court Martial General Mukasey!

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“The fact that an act is undertaken to prevent a threatened terrorist attack, rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse, would be relevant to a reasonable observer in measuring the outrageousness of the act,” said Brian A. Benczkowski, a deputy assistant attorney general, in the letter, which had not previously been made public. […]

Oh my, oh my. He should have kept his mouth shut. Now the whole world knows that Benczkowski is a stupid fool.

And if I shoot you to take your money because I need it, rather than just because I think you’re too stoopid to live, Benczkowski, that’s just A-OK, and I get a “get out of jail free” card….

I’d note for the brain-damaged that the Cnvention Against Torture categorically bans such in “all circumstances whatsoever”, and makes no provision for “benign <GAAACK!*> motives”. Same with the U.S. laws for assault and torture, no provision for “gummint belevolence” there.

In one letter written Sept. 27, 2007, Mr. Benczkowski argued that “to rise to the level of an outrage” and thus be prohibited under the Geneva Conventions, conduct “must be so deplorable that the reasonable observer would recognize it as something that should be universally condemned.”

Once we hang all the remaining 28% (and falling) of neocons and RW authoritarians for enabling war crimes (if not abject stoopidity), there will be “universal[] condemn[ation]” of torture.

Speaking hypothetically, of course.

Cheers,

“I won’t discuss the actuality of evidence then”
Joseph Persichini, FBI Washington Field Office

http://www.c-span.org/
Segment titled: DOJ Announces Anthrax Results

Then we have Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, handing out billions to private entities.

Gonzo may be gone, but the drips just keep coming!

DOCI

Dept of Criminal Injustice…

One representative just said they wouldn’t talk about the evidence!

EVIDENCE?!?? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING EVIDENCE!
That’s a quaint concept…….just like the Geneva Convention.

Those who approved torture should be held to account for their actions. Those who actually carried out the torture should be investigated as well. The American people have a right to know who ordered what and who did what to whom.

Anyone who was involved in the systematic torture of prisoners should be brought to justice. This includes everyone from the lowest level private to the Commander in Chief himself. No one is above the law. Those found guilty should be made to pay the price for their actions.

If we can’t bring justice to our own, how can we expect to bring justice to others? Al Qaeda’s actions do not give us carte blanche to throw our values and beliefs out the window. We are better than that; we’re supposed to be a superpower. It sure has been a long time since we acted like one… well, a responsible one anyway. The punch-drunk Bush administration has a lot to account for, not the least of which are these un-American activities that took place during their watch.

Visions of the 1968 night of the living dead come to mind.
With the bush administration wandering blindly around outside the farmhouse eating the innards of it’s own people while what’s left of the country’s citizens huddle inside boarding up the windows listening to am radio news praying for a ray of hope.

One representative just said they wouldn’t talk about the evidence!

August 6th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
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You seem to forget that Ibn ash-Shaykh al-Libi warned us about Saddam Hussein training al-Qa’ida operatives in the use of biological and chemical weapons. And how did we get that valuable information? Torture.

And then of course there’s ‘Abd Allah Higazy, the Egyptian who confessed to helping plot the 9/11 attacks after we threatened to have his family tortured.

Never mind that both of these were false confessions. That doesn’t matter in Bushworld.

Btw – who decides that the torture would be due to a “threatened terrorist attack”?

So, he is saying sometimes they torture for what they consider a worthwhile reason, and sometimes they do it just for kicks.

Screw you, Mucky.

Allow me to translate:

“The end justifies the means.”

The ultimate justification of all totalitarians and tyrants throughout history.

This is the exact principle the founders of this country sought to overturn in their creation of the American government.

Gee, 232 years. It was a good run while it lasted.