Comments on: Marcy Wheeler on Torture Prosecutions: Live At NN09

By: Leen

Leen — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:27:19 +0000

ACLU’s Melissa Goodman and Vince Warren and Jen Nessel from the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Marcy kicked butt. Melissa Goodman cutting through the bull also.

Nadler o.k.
“he ain’t my muse” that about covers it.

I went up to him after the panel and asked him just why there has not been one person or persons held accountable for the false pre-war intelligence?

Why I know that it was the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence who investigated the false pre war intelligence (Phase I and Phase II). When I asked him that question his reply “well we have so much to do”

Christ All mighty hundreds of thousands are dead, injured due to the use of this false intelligence. Millions are displaced.

Nadler “we have so much to do”

Niger Documents who cares….those same folks (Ledeen, Woolsey, Wurmser, Feith, Bolton) have moved on to the manufacturing of consent to do in Iran. And a damn good job they are doing…repeating the unsubstantiated claims about Iran all over the MSM and all of these claims go unchallenged by David Gregory, Stephanapoulous, Neil Conan, Matthews, Maddow, Olbermann. Hell Terri Gross of Fresh Air often repeats them herself “Irans nuclear weapons program”

what fucking nuclear weapons program. I guess what the former head of the Iaea El Baradei and present head of the Iaea say about Iran just do not matter. “NO hard evidence”

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:16:54 +0000

Maybe someone thinks torture is no longer an issue?

maybe they don’t know that Marcy is one of their biggest stars

they probably think people came to see Nadler

no disrespect to Congressman Nadler, but, he ain’t my Muse …

By: Jeff Kaye

Jeff Kaye — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:33:14 +0000

Thank you Spencer for all the live-blogging, so someone like me could read later, after the event. Good job!

And thanks to those on the panel for working this topic.

By: Jeff Kaye

Jeff Kaye — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:31:09 +0000

Congress makes the abuse legal (think the MCA), and this is the same Congress that we’re told will do a thorough investigation. I don’t think so.

By: GregB

GregB — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:31:40 +0000

Meanwhile the empire rolls on.

Big rumblings in South America as the U.S. commits to sending troops and unmanned drones to Columbia.

What with Iraq seemingly winding down and all we gotta send our boys somewhere.

-G

By: RevDeb

RevDeb — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:19:09 +0000

It was recorded. I hope to be getting a copy of the DVD. I’ll let you know.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:11:23 +0000

Thank you Spencer,
and RevDeb.

Sure wish this was recorded somewhere. Important panel.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:09:55 +0000

Jane’s on a panel with Darcy Burner.

By: RevDeb

RevDeb — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:54:04 +0000

Marcy said we can use the “nutters” re wiretaps and scare them that the feds are “getting into their panty drawers”

laughs in the room.

By: Twain

Twain — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:52:46 +0000

That’s wonderful. thanks