This is dissapointing

. . .Are you nuts or what (heh heh said with respect and affection)? Rodriquez, at this point anyway, is the one with the most body parts in the wringer. He has lawyered up big time; Bob Bennett no less. Now, I don’t know what Bob will do; but if Rodriquez were my client, he wouldn’t be doing any interviews, under oath or otherwise, without every ounce of immunity I could humanly accumulate for him and even then, only after direct order of a court and interlocutory appeal therefrom. . .

hey bmaz — again, i’ve emphasized the part
of yours, where i think our views depart
from one another.

i think he’ll sing — under oath, and
with immunity — and soon. as you point
out, he has, essentially, life in prison to lose.

i knew of bennett’s retention — but let’s remember
that what everyone says rodriquez did, constituted
multiple felonies. i guess you think he wouldn’t be
immediately indicted, were he to decide not to
cooperate. mukasey strikes me as the kind who
will act quickly and decively to have him wearing
orange, especially if he doesn’t roll-over. there
is more than enough sworn testimony to win a life-
sentence conviction against him, right now.

so i think bennett will have to
deal — a smallish plea, perhaps
failure to preserve records, for immunity.

yep — you are right:
bennett will get him immunity,
but then he’ll sing.
loud and long, and
indeed quickly, i suspect.

again, we’ll see.
so we’re clear, i meant no disrespect.

p e a c e

an interview, under oath, of rodriquez;
follow-up wih anyone he says gave him an
okay to destroy the tapes — then, interviews
of the DoJ lawyers who signed the pleadings
in the terror cases — i think that will yield
the bulk of the evidence still remaining. all the
rest has likely been shredded. perhaps a focued
search of all the back-up drives at the CIA for
duplicate electronic copies of the tapes will
yield the tapes themselves. it has been reported
that the torture videos were sent IN ELECTRONIC FORM
to the CIA here, from remote locations — gitmo and/or
various secret locations. that would be a coup. and
those back-ups aren’t easily destroyed — not as simple
as burning and smashing a video cassette.

now — i forgot to mention, in my WAG, above, that
i think richard bruce cheney gave a “ghosted approval“
of all this tape stuff — in much the same fashion
as the “wink and nod approval” cheney gave scooter
libby, when scoots outed valerie plame’s covert identity.

we’ll see in time. . .

but it will take time.

p e a c e

What is the “secret” for this group? To answer your question, some conjectures come to mind:

Is fear the secret (or only one of several secrets) for this group? If so, what is it that this group is so afraid of? Are most, if not all, of the group’s members insecure people whose primary source of security comes from belonging to a political party? Please look at Fareed Zakaria’s comments in this recent Newsweek column:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/77068

One of Haynes’ allies on the Bush administration legal team, former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, recently coauthored a law review article sharply critical of the JAGs’ unwillingness to endorse the legality of the administration’s treatment of wartime detainees.

No conflict of interest there at all Johnny boy… Can’t imagine why he would be unhappy that the JAGs called bullshit on his opinions… Wouldn’t have anything to do with violations of the Geneva Conventions being war crimes, would it?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…..tapes.html