Comments on: Bam!!! CIA Scores Direct Hit on the Unitary Executive! http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:35:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-38070 bmaz Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:05:30 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-38070 <p>Whoo boy Brendan, that case is a bizarre piece of work eh? Appears from the WaPo article that we are ginning up a case of money laundering and influencing foreign elections as to Antoinini and the four coming to talk to him and using the fact that they came here to talk to him as an “overt act” under a conspiracy theory. This, if true, is totally bogus; but you know our fearless leaders never miss an opportunity to screw with Hugo Chavez. And make total asses of themselves and our country. That is my best guess anyway…..</p> Whoo boy Brendan, that case is a bizarre piece of work eh? Appears from the WaPo article that we are ginning up a case of money laundering and influencing foreign elections as to Antoinini and the four coming to talk to him and using the fact that they came here to talk to him as an “overt act” under a conspiracy theory. This, if true, is totally bogus; but you know our fearless leaders never miss an opportunity to screw with Hugo Chavez. And make total asses of themselves and our country. That is my best guess anyway…..

]]> By: brendanx http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-38061 brendanx Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:26:50 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-38061 <p>emptywheel:</p> <p>This is completely off-topic, but I thought you might be interested in the Kirchner-Venezuela-Miami case:</p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121302063.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02063.html</a></p> <p>Can anyone tell me why U.S. prosecutors have any part in the matter?</p> emptywheel:

This is completely off-topic, but I thought you might be interested in the Kirchner-Venezuela-Miami case:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..02063.html

Can anyone tell me why U.S. prosecutors have any part in the matter?

]]> By: looseheadprop http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-37854 looseheadprop Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:22:28 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-37854 <p>Marcy has a new pixie dust post upstairs</p> Marcy has a new pixie dust post upstairs

]]> By: bobschacht http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-37853 bobschacht Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:22:07 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-37853 <p>“I have a post comming up sometime today about what the fearful Dems (and all of us) can to vanquish Boagarts in th eCloset or Monsters under the Bed (like the Unitary executive or Deadeye Dick)”</p> <p>Good! I’ll look forward to that!</p> <p>Bob in HI</p> “I have a post comming up sometime today about what the fearful Dems (and all of us) can to vanquish Boagarts in th eCloset or Monsters under the Bed (like the Unitary executive or Deadeye Dick)”

Good! I’ll look forward to that!

Bob in HI

]]> By: Hmmm http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-37846 Hmmm Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:14:16 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-37846 <p>I hadn’t noticed the SCOTUS resolution to the access-to-prisoners issue before (thanks to you for that, I agree it belongs in the timeline). Maybe once Comey saw that defense atty’s were going to get that, the torture cat would inevitably be let out of the bag eventually, and as a result, he’d be toast.</p> <p>I just had another sorta OT thought. What if the (much later) re-appearance of the destroyed interrogation recordings happened because they were transmitted over the internet, and The Program scooped them up?</p> <p>Hmmm.</p> I hadn’t noticed the SCOTUS resolution to the access-to-prisoners issue before (thanks to you for that, I agree it belongs in the timeline). Maybe once Comey saw that defense atty’s were going to get that, the torture cat would inevitably be let out of the bag eventually, and as a result, he’d be toast.

I just had another sorta OT thought. What if the (much later) re-appearance of the destroyed interrogation recordings happened because they were transmitted over the internet, and The Program scooped them up?

Hmmm.

]]> By: maryo2 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-37844 maryo2 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:12:11 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-37844 <p>On more time, this time with the two above dates included. This looks like maybe Comey stuck around until after the Supreme Court had upheld the Fourth Circuit Court just to be sure that there was a check and balance on military tribunals.</p> <p>Thursday, March 4, 2004 - Ashcroft hospitalized<br /> Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - Card and Gonzales pile on ailing Ashcroft at the hospital<br /> On September 13, 2004 the Fourth Circuit ruled that the defense had to have some access to captured terrorist suspects.<br /> November 11, 2004 - Bush nominated Gonzales to replace Ashcroft<br /> February 3, 2005 - US Senate confimed Gonzales 60-36, signaling that Congress will not interfere with Bush’s reign of terror<br /> On March 21, 2005 the Supreme Court left the Fourth Circuit ruling intact.<br /> April 20, 2005 - Comey announced resignation as Deputy US Attorney, number 2 under Gonzales.</p> On more time, this time with the two above dates included. This looks like maybe Comey stuck around until after the Supreme Court had upheld the Fourth Circuit Court just to be sure that there was a check and balance on military tribunals.

Thursday, March 4, 2004 – Ashcroft hospitalized
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 – Card and Gonzales pile on ailing Ashcroft at the hospital
On September 13, 2004 the Fourth Circuit ruled that the defense had to have some access to captured terrorist suspects.
November 11, 2004 – Bush nominated Gonzales to replace Ashcroft
February 3, 2005 – US Senate confimed Gonzales 60-36, signaling that Congress will not interfere with Bush’s reign of terror
On March 21, 2005 the Supreme Court left the Fourth Circuit ruling intact.
April 20, 2005 – Comey announced resignation as Deputy US Attorney, number 2 under Gonzales.

]]> By: maryo2 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-37840 maryo2 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:01:10 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-37840 <p>Thursday, March 4, 2004 - Ashcroft hospitalized<br /> Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - Card and Gonzales pile on ailing Ashcroft at the hospital<br /> November 11, 2004 - Bush nominated Gonzales to replace Ashcroft<br /> February 3, 2005 - US Senate confimed Gonzales 60-36, signaling that Congress will not interfere with Bush’s reign of terror<br /> April 20, 2005 - Comey announced resignation as Deputy US Attorney, number 2 under Gonzales.</p> <p>Hmmm @ 100, do you see another motive for Comey’s resignation other than simply because he saw the Gonzales confirmation as proof that he would find no support in Congress for challenges to illegal wiretapping, removal of habeaus corpus rights and torture?</p> Thursday, March 4, 2004 – Ashcroft hospitalized
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 – Card and Gonzales pile on ailing Ashcroft at the hospital
November 11, 2004 – Bush nominated Gonzales to replace Ashcroft
February 3, 2005 – US Senate confimed Gonzales 60-36, signaling that Congress will not interfere with Bush’s reign of terror
April 20, 2005 – Comey announced resignation as Deputy US Attorney, number 2 under Gonzales.

Hmmm @ 100, do you see another motive for Comey’s resignation other than simply because he saw the Gonzales confirmation as proof that he would find no support in Congress for challenges to illegal wiretapping, removal of habeaus corpus rights and torture?

]]> By: TheraP http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-37839 TheraP Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:58:17 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-37839 <p>So now the repub candidates are turning the troops against them! Why do they hate our troops?</p> So now the repub candidates are turning the troops against them! Why do they hate our troops?

]]> By: LS http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-37838 LS Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:52:38 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-37838 <p>Their little authoritarian world is shhhhhrinnkkkinggggg…..</p> Their little authoritarian world is shhhhhrinnkkkinggggg…..

]]> By: perris http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/comment-page-1/#comment-37837 perris Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:46:54 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/#comment-37837 <p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/13/journal-waterboarding/" rel="nofollow">FINALLY some SANITY</a></p> <blockquote><p>Conservative Military Journal Slams Giuliani And Mukasey’s ‘Tacit Support For Waterboarding’ </p></blockquote> <p>BOY, military, cia, ag’s, all pushing back against these despots</p> <p>AND WHERE IS PELOSI?</p> <p>anyway, more snippet</p> <blockquote><p>Let AFJ be crystal clear on a subject where these men are opaque: <b>Waterboarding is a torture technique that has its history rooted in the Spanish Inquisition.</b> In 1947, <b>the U.S. prosecuted a Japanese military officer for carrying out a form of waterboarding </b>on a U.S. civilian during World War II. </p> <p>Waterboarding inflicts on its victims the terror of imminent death. And as with all torture techniques, it is, therefore, an inherently flawed method for gaining reliable information. In short, it doesn’t work. That blunt truth means <b>all U.S. leaders, present and future, should be clear on the issue.</b></p></blockquote> <p>YAYYYYY!!!!!!</p> <p>some sanity</p> FINALLY some SANITY

Conservative Military Journal Slams Giuliani And Mukasey’s ‘Tacit Support For Waterboarding’

BOY, military, cia, ag’s, all pushing back against these despots

AND WHERE IS PELOSI?

anyway, more snippet

Let AFJ be crystal clear on a subject where these men are opaque: Waterboarding is a torture technique that has its history rooted in the Spanish Inquisition. In 1947, the U.S. prosecuted a Japanese military officer for carrying out a form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian during World War II.

Waterboarding inflicts on its victims the terror of imminent death. And as with all torture techniques, it is, therefore, an inherently flawed method for gaining reliable information. In short, it doesn’t work. That blunt truth means all U.S. leaders, present and future, should be clear on the issue.

YAYYYYY!!!!!!

some sanity

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