Comments on: Did Rice Just Implicate Bush For Torture?

By: Robt

Robt — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:07:13 +0000

Condi did find herself unprepared and missing that White House authority to call the shots.

It seems to me she confessed in carrying out torture and tried to give the, “If a President does it is legal”.

I’m very disapointed in Condi because she sounded like that White House Sarah Taylor in front of congress in a hearing when she said, “I took an oath to the President”. I believe Pat Lehey at the time addressed this oath with her and told her there is no oath to the president.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:47:50 +0000

That distinction also fits with the story about what they learned from the Iran-Contra thing: run these illegal things from the Veeps office to keep it away from the President.

Of course *technically* the Veep has absolutely no power to authorize anything. Remember, he’s only a barnacle. I hope Veep Biden remembers that too. I’m sure it’s awfully tempting to be part of the inner circle and to begin doing stuff.

By: hazmaq

hazmaq — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:50:58 +0000

What a disloyal cowardly bitch. This ‘well educated Russian expert’ was totally useless other than to spoon feed the guy and change his diapers.
Hey, she made her own bed and is equally at fault.

The Court just ruled in a 7-2 opinion in an accidental gun discharge case, that if you want to play with guns you take full blame for whatever happens.
I hope they all rot, for the brutal sheer torture they put us all through for 8 years.

Abu Zubaydah, who’s job was a personnel clerk, was waterboarded 83 times and his keepers filmed as they did it -for Cheney’s pleasure no doubt. He now has severe brain damage.
http://www.latimes.com/news/op.....9097.story

By: Jeff Kaye

Jeff Kaye — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:02:31 +0000

“No, dear, you’re wrong…. Do your homework…”

My god, the lying arrogance of this smug politico. My favorite part of the video is where Condi stops the student and tells him the attacks on 9/11 were worse than facing the Nazis in World War II, “because they [the Nazis] never attacked the Homeland.” The student: “But 500000 died in WW II — ” Condi: “I don’t care, they didn’t attack the homeland…”

Yes, mein Fuhrer, and waterboarding didn’t violate the Convention Against Torture, either.

Why listen to this High Priestess of the Cult of Mendacity? I guess you and EW pulled as much from this woman’s talk as anyone might want to get. For me, it was an emetic experience (assuming I can use that word as an adjective).

By: PPDCUS

PPDCUS — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:11:54 +0000

This assumes criminal prosecutions & convictions.

Other than the magistrate in Spain, Obama administration bipartisanship prosecutions are highly unlikely and there will be no Federalist Society convictions.

The bubble will get smaller, but they’ve made it impervious to accountability which was the plan all along.

By: ImperialFlow

ImperialFlow — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:10:02 +0000

Is that even true? She’s a direct member of the cabinet as the Sec. of State and a direct advisor to the President as the National Security Advisor.

In either role she reports directly to the President. The office of the Vice President is orthogonal to her relationship to the Presidency. So, when she says, “Administration” she can only mean, “the President.”

By: perris

perris — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:53:58 +0000

now bush is going to have some serious trouble, if he wants to protect his loyal servant who made a mistake at this press conferance he’s going to have to bury cheney

someone falls here, rice, cheney or bush, it’s not going to be bush

yet

By: myshadow

myshadow — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:44:54 +0000

If there is anyone who would whither under hard questioning it is mde. ‘who could have imagined’. Arguements aren’t hard when you are right. She wasn’t doing well.
I think the President is playing 3D chess here. There is going to be a Chinese Drip of toxic information coming out, for months. It will offend the World and I’m hoping America. It is going to play out on the World stage. I think these guys will be tried in abstentia.
There is no way the President could say anything was a crime till the AG makes a determination. Also I don’t think it is safe to try these people with the present supreme court. I lived through US VS Nixon, there is a real danger the clowns that appointed bush will exonerate him.

By: cleetcleet

cleetcleet — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:42:03 +0000

She’s definitely channeling the ghost of Richard Nixon, which makes the argument for prosecution all the more compelling. The failure to prosecute Nixon et al lead us thru the Reagan crimes to those of the Bush admin. So long as we assert the fiction that we’re ruled by law then by gum let’s hold’em all to account. Otherwise pls send me my own get-out-of-jail-free card asap. I’ve a mind to pay off my quarter million dollar medical expenses with money I don’t have.

By: demi

demi — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:26:21 +0000

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm