Feinstein: ‘Right now, I don’t have a comment’ on impeaching Jay Bybee.
Feinstein: ‘Right now, I don’t have a comment’ on impeaching Jay Bybee.
On MSNBC this afternoon, Andrea Mitchell asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to respond to Sen. Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) argument that the Senate has to “look” at the possible impeachment of Judge Jay Bybee, who authored memos for the Bush administration that authorized torture. “I’m not really prepared to get into that at this time, at this point,” said Feinstein. “Right now, I don’t have a comment on that.” Watch it:
Earlier today, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, told the Huffington Post that “the decent and honorable thing for” Bybee “to do would be to resign.” “And if he is a decent and honorable person, he will resign,” said Leahy.
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Yes he should resign. And he should also be disbarred. The order is less important than that both things happen.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:46 pmWhat’s up Dianne?
Need permission from your handlers?
Scared of what the Lim-bots might say?
Grow a set lady!
April 21st, 2009 at 1:52 pmIf he was a decent and honorable person he would not have allowed John Yoo’s sadistic rantings to see the light of day let alone approved them for implementation. That is why we discuss impeachment.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:54 pmI fear that if Bybee resigns, that would be the end of it. Leaving too many unanswered questions. The American people deserve a full accounting, which would most likely get swept under the rug with a resignation, in the interest of “moving forward.”
April 21st, 2009 at 1:54 pmProtip: if you haven’t done your homework this morning, don’t go on TV. There’s an outside possibility that they might ask you questions.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:54 pmBybee has lot of illegal information on Feinstein so she really can’t talk about him right now. Remember Bybee knew all the secret players and he could bring them down with him if they turn on him. Pelosi will have a drink and say something stupid. Feinstein’s husband hopes see can cover up their illegal deals with the Bush Administration. This transparency polciy will bring down alot of long time Law Makers. Boehner was drunk in his interview with ABC and his commit on Cow as was really about himself.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:58 pmBybee is anything but decent and honorable. I hope Feinstein does not disappoint. I don’t care who prosecutes these criminals as long as something is done about the crimes of torture.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:00 pmThis doesn’t surprise me in the least. Keep in mind Feinstein is and always has been a neurotic, worthless, f**cking, mindless “skank” who constantly carries water for the elites!
April 21st, 2009 at 2:01 pmI’ll make it all easy for everyone, including the reich wingers to get on board with impeaching Bybee…just put a (D) after his name and he’ll be impeached by sundown…that applies to the @ssholes responsible for the torture memos as well.
It seems the chuckleheads cannot wait to impeach a Dem so lets get the ball rolling.
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April 21st, 2009 at 2:01 pmDisbarred for sure! Not enough talk about Yoo. He is equally if not more guilty and should be immediately removed from his job at UofC Berkley.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:02 pmHave you read the memos Bybee wrote, Sen Leahy?
Bybee is not a decent and honorable man.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:07 pmI have a comment: Let’s impeach Bybee and throw in Feinstein for free…
April 21st, 2009 at 2:10 pmI’m total agreement, hanshiro. Feinstein is useless — except to Republicans.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:12 pmjudiciary has got to do what it’s has to do… i think it will too.
BUT, i see how easy it will be for the SCLMedia to take over the game plan with CONSTANT coverage and focus on these problems…
we ALL need to make sure that the work for HEALTH CARE COVERAGE and EDUCATION and the ENVIRONMENT etc does not get drowned out and put off.
do not play into any plans of distraction.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:13 pmBuh-bye, Bybee.
Oh, and
Phuck Yoo
April 21st, 2009 at 2:15 pmI will be donating to the defeat of this facist, elitist, unAmerican, Israeli sucking Senator.
BiBiDiFi!!!
April 21st, 2009 at 2:21 pmProud Says:
Typical dirty Dumbocrat, I do think she pays her taxes though, which is a new concept for Dems.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:19 pm
F uck you, moron. Prove it.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:29 pmI believe he’s actually chillin’ behind the Orange Curtain at Chapman U.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:31 pmProud Says: Heehaw!
hp Says: D’ohh!
The difference, little hobGOPlins, is we are harder on errant democrats and pull no punches.
Were this a red state site, however, you’d be inundating us with limbaugh quotes and Clenis claims in an effort to deflect and defend any republican dirtbag.
The difference is obvious.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:44 pmFeinstein is a DINO. Don’t expect good things to come from her court. Besides, I doubt she will run again. She is setting her sights on being Governor of California.
For the life of me I can’t understand why California still likes DiFi. I lived there for 25 years and I have to say that California voters have always puzzled me. The state seems Liberal but then they go and vote conservative. Makes no sense.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:44 pm“And if he is a decent and honorable person, he will resign,” said Leahy.”
BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Right.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:49 pmProud…
What exactly are you proud of? Just curious.
Are you a “Great American”?
Mega Dittos to ya fella!
(snark)
April 21st, 2009 at 2:58 pm“Feinstein: ‘Right now, I don’t have a comment’ on impeaching Jay Bybee.”
No comment? Gee, I wonder why? Maybe it is because:
1) According to the Washington Times newspaper today that Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.
2) She voted time and time again for Bush’s Patriot Act and domestic spying.
Like Harman and others that will be found out, Feinstein is up to her neck in cesspool of muck.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:03 pm“to do would be to resign.” “And if he is a decent and honorable person, he will resign,” said Leahy.
Uh, he’s a REPUBLICAN, which means…NO, he is neither decent or honorable…
….catch a clue guys…they are the scum of the earth.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:11 pm“no comment” on eight long years of Bush-Cheney fascist dictatorship and endless wars and criminal occupations? Feinstein is just another worthless lying corporate pig. Of course, she has had the backing of the corporate SF Chronicle, which also supported the Bush Presidential Election thefts in 2000 and 2004. No need for the so-called “Fourth Estate” to actually investigate into these fascist election thefts. Naah…
April 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pm“And if he is a decent and honorable person, he will resign,” said Leahy.
When? Right after the monkeys fly out his butt?
April 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pmDiane, Diane. What are we going to do with you? You keep your job after so many mistakes. You supported so many of Bush’s policies we don’t know where to find your name on the ballot anymore. I first look under Republican but you keep coming up Democrat? We need to retire you next term, you are worthless and I hope another very strong Democrat with better judgement pushes you out of office. Wouldn’t it be nice!!
April 21st, 2009 at 3:50 pmI knew “Proud” couldn’t prove shit.
In fact, he couldn’t prove shit to be shit.
April 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pmFeinstein is a back stabber b**#@##! She say one thing to the American people and vote for their corporate financiers.
April 21st, 2009 at 4:24 pmThis is my favorite photo of Dianne Feinstein.
April 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pm*
Just why are there so many political whores in Congress? Male, female, Senate, House, doesn’t seem to make any difference. They have only the principles someone pays them to have.
Why do they keep getting elected?
April 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pmThere was some action taken by Berkeley faculty and students to give yoo the heave-ho when the stuff he’d been involved with first began to become public. The Board of Regents and the Dean of the Berkeley law school gave him cover with some lame, weak-a$$ excuses.
The last I heard, yoo was on leave of absence from Berkeley in order to work somewhere else. I can’t remember what that position was. But to me it sounded like the University felt it needed to allow things to cool off somewhat, so they arranged for yoo to have a titular position somewhere out of the public eye where he could have an income stream that would help keep his mouth shut — though he is into this thing up to his neck already and I can’t see him turning around and ratting on his former bosses. He knows his career is on the line. Too bad he doesn’t realize how close he is to having his neck inserted into a noose by the international community.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:18 pm.” “And if he is a decent and honorable person, he will resign,”
Since he obviously is not a decent and honorable person, if I were you Sen. Leahy I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for that outcome. It seems fairly obvious, at least to me, there was a shortage of “decent and honorable” individuals in the bush mis-Administration. But I’m just a poor working class person so what do I know? Better yet what does my opinion really “count” since it’s hardly in my “budget” to even attempt to bribe my “representative” to actually represent me. Just sayin.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:38 pmProud Says:
Typical dirty Dumbocrat, I do think she pays her taxes though, which is a new concept for Dems.
LMAO…Good post Proud. I love all the hateful speech these so called tolerant left wingers use all the time. It would seem they are nothing but hypocrites? Look at the foul language they constantly post with. Sad…really sad.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:05 pmTorture is evil. There are broader issues involved in the politicizing of the OLC. Fortunately, competent people of conscience have been working to right these wrongs, even during the Bush administration. There is something to be said for the fact that we know these abuses took place.
One of the memos drafted by Yoo is an opinion authorizing domestic military operations beyond mere stationing of troops in streets and at airports. The Oct. 23, 2001 memo reasoned that the Posse Comitatus Act, forbidding the military from engaging in domestic law enforcement, was an obstacle overcome by the military’s national security function.
The memo also discloses the administration’s position that Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures did not apply to the search for terrorists on American soil. “The law has recognized that force (including deadly force) may be legitimately used in self-defense,” wrote Yoo and Special Counsel Robert J. Delahunty. That same memo also included the opinion that, “First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.” In case these expansions of authority were deemed insufficient, the opinion adds that “the current campaign against terrorism may require even broader exercises of federal power domestically.”
April 21st, 2009 at 11:07 pmlink
Sorry, those last two paragraphs should be in block quotes.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:08 pmwiley Says:
Torture is evil.
You had me right there. I just wanted to undescore your most excellent opening.
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wiley Says:
One of the memos drafted by Yoo is an opinion authorizing domestic military operations beyond mere stationing of troops in streets and at airports.
Yeah, what’s up with that? Bush left like one brigade on active duty “deployed” within the U.S. borders. Not enough to subjugate the country, but more than enough to force a constitutional crisis (should anybody bother to notice). I mean, what’s the point? Just knock it off and cancel deployment statis or GTFO.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:05 amI was more than a little concerned that we might not have an election last year. The Bush administration was criminal, tyrannical, and corrupt beyond all reason. Torture is just one of so very many crimes they have committed. Funny how much of it has been leaked all along.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:32 amntvmsnbc wonderful nevs cannel,
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:41 pmZooey Says:
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I knew “Proud” couldn’t prove shit.
In fact, he couldn’t prove shit to be shit.
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Hey Zooey:
While you and the Liberals/Dems. continue to categorically deny that your exhalted leaders could IN NO WAY possibly be crooked–in exactly the same way that RUSH, Lou, and F*x News deny that the exhalted Neo-Cons/Republicans can IN NO WAY possibly be crooked–WE ALL LOOSE.
This is their plan–divide and conquer…and keep this partisan-ship crap growing between and among the electorate.
So take off your ear-plugs, rose-color-glasses and open your mind.
Do yourself a favor, sweetie… “Bread and Circus”, because that is EXACTLY the mode that we are in.
You want proof on DiFi?
Here, see this link…unequivocal proof…going back two years.
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:gc8upmNSo5sJ:www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809771/posts+feinstein+dirty&cd=26&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Yup, $50 mil for her hubby’s firm, she voted on it; period, exclamation point.
By the way…so is her stablemaate, “Bab’s”.
She and her husband own a great deal of Natural Gas industry holdings–and THAT is why she is pro-natural-gas, and anti-alternative energy.
Says who?
None other than that last bastion of conservatism…Chris Matthews, who confronted her with it last year, on-air.
By the way, as to St. Claire of Mo.; here is a little story for you…
“The self proclaimed watchdog Senator from Missouri, Claire McCaskill sure likes to throw up smokescreens. She will vote to tighten ethics and lobbying rules in Congress (S. 1). But then at the same time keep stuffing money in her pockets from shady campaign contributions.
As you have seen in the news, fugitive Hsu through himself and a network of friends dontated money to many Democrats running for office. Some of found ways to donate to charity the money and some have kept it. Of course the defense that Senator McCaskill uses is that the money didn’t come from Hsu and came from the Paw family. Then in her normal greed style, she keeps the money and stays in denial.
Come on folks, any of you who believe the money came from the Paw family and not Hsu need to dig your head out of the sand and take a good look at reality.
Fact: Paw family income is $49,000 (that is before taxes and living expenses and etc), they donated $200,000. Simple math $49,000 income does not equal $200,000 in donations, pretty freakin simple folks. Hsu and the Paw family have been friends for years and members of th Paw family have even admited that they were approaced by Hsu to make contributions on his behalf. So any who is playing dumb on this is just stupid. Yes, I said stupid because their is no other way to describe it.
Here is the deal, what is more important Senator McCaskill, showing that you have ethics and finding a charity to donate the dirty money you have received or be the greedy person that you are and pocket the $20,000 (by the way she is collecting money right now from lobbyist to pay herself back for a failed campaign for Missouri Governor) . So yes the money is going straight to her pocket.”
Now, just in case you think that I am a Rush-ie, Bush-ie, F*x-ie, Lou-ie, etc…I will give you this one: if you want an outstnding read on the details of the FISA court violations, etc–then read Bamford’s new book, The Shadow Factory. He names names in “dubbya’s” FISA court, AG’s office, NSA, CIA, etc. A must read for anyone who cares about our personal privacy rights and rendition policies.
Hint: you don’t want the US to do toruture?
Great, just have the person picked up by another country.
Your naivete is very high, not your fault–you are representative of the general population.
This is by design.
Regards,
April 26th, 2009 at 1:26 pmNobreadandcircus