Comments on: Jerrold Nadler: We Must Investigate Torture … and Fix State Secrets

By: tjbs

tjbs — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:13:45 +0000

A state secret is the PAT TILLMAN assassination by an American weapon.
State secrets seems like a license to kill.

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:37:43 +0000

I was not on Obama’s bus when I heard him keep repeating “move on, turn the page” crap . So many of the Dems and Republicans have been repeating this “move on, turn the page” mantra for several years now. While I was putting in many hours for former Congressman Sherrod Brown when he was running for Dewine’s senate seat the false pre-war intelligence came up and the issue of accountability. Sherrod Brown repeated the we don’t want this to be a “blame game” I felt like I had been punched in the gut.

My response to Brown “since when did justice and accountability start being defined as the “blame game”. This is all so Rovian

I guess after Republicans spent years investigating blow jobs they now define all investigations into administration officials actions as “vengeance or witch hunts”

Quite the distance between investigating bj’s and investigating intelligence snow jobs that result in hundreds of thousands dead and injured and torture. At least in my book

By: Bluetoe2

Bluetoe2 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:32:25 +0000

and yet we here that Obama and Harry Reid think a thorough investigation of torture is nothing but a distraction. A distraction from what? Obama’s organic garden and Reid’s ring record?

By: CTuttle

CTuttle — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:08:16 +0000

Most indubitably, Hugh…

Obama has tacked to the center too often, yet, there’s still hope in dope…!

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:03:49 +0000

Just looking at the trends and doing the math. As far as I can tell, Obama has not changed his postion on any of this. He had guys like Cass Sunstein out there inveighing aggainst the criminalization of “policy differences.” Yesterday I linked to a couple of oxdown diaries I wrote from just before the inauguration in which Obama first promoted the line about looking forward not looking back. He was against rank and file prosecutions then and decidedly tepid about pursuing any criminal investigations at all. This is pretty much where he is now.

By: CTuttle

CTuttle — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:49:58 +0000

Always the eternal optimist eh, Hugh…?

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:48:41 +0000

Nadler ” you don’t have much choice under the law-you have to investigate”
does this statement reflect Nadler’s past stance on issues?

or is this his response/ approach when the Jane’s and Marcy’s of the U.S. are breathing down his neck?

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:38:16 +0000

Let’s see. Nadler wants a special prosecutor, and Obama just wants this all to go away. Who will prevail? Yeah, that’s what I thought too.

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:36:28 +0000

ditto. Marcy deserves some recognition for all of her work, leadership and commitment to justice. gives us hope

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:24:38 +0000

Karpinski hammered on this during her interview on Countdown the other night

Hold the upline people accountable