Anyone surprised?

The Member Briefings Report is cloudy, at best, on Dem Complicity, but it clearly says that the Goopers were given knowledge of a War Crime by Bush – Waterboarding Zubaydah – before Informing Congress.

So, do the Goopers speak-up and Say they were Complicit back then, or keep quiet and Show that they’re Still Complicit now?

That’s really the Major Action, imvho, that’s going on in these Hearings. It’s not about the witnesses – What’s really going on is everyone is ‘watching’ the behavior of the Goopers to ’see’ them Willfully Ignoring Bush’s War Crime of Waterboarding Zubaydah, without properly informing Congress beforehand.

And so, what do We see? Lindsay Graham shows-up to a hearing on Torture with his hands in his pockets, and just whistles his way through the proceedings without even the slightest acknowledgment of Bush’s Obvious Crime.

That’s interesting information in and of itself.

But is that business as usual to keep reminding everyone that he has a plane to catch and we need to wrap it up? Seems like he could have set some time between the first hearing and his next appointment

Good point; there should have been more ‘give’ in Whitehouse’s schedule, but OTOH if he’d walked out with no explanation that would not have been acceptable.

The good news is that from what I can tell catching up, this hearing was really a stunner.
And a first step.

Durbin raises a complex, disturbing, and critical issue.
IMHO, this is a gutsy, profound question-observation.
I hope it’s followed up, because it surely hits the heart of a very dark nexis of problems.

Zellikow “unchartered waters”
“murky area of the law”
(“I’m just one point of view”
“of course just offering my opinion”
“perfectly entitled to hear an alternative opinion”
“they weren’t commiting an obstruction of justice by trying to destroy copies of the memos”

Zellikow “I don’t know why they wanted to do it”

“all it shows is that they were presented with an argument that says your interpretation of the law appears to this one fellow to be unsound”
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Will we ever find out what Soufan was attempting to say when he was interrupted three times by Lindsay “I support International treaties” except when it comes to the U.S. Graham. Then Soufan was interrupted again by Whitehouse because he had to get in his shtick before he rushed off to catch a plane.

Don’t get me wrong I hang onto everything Whitehouse says and sounds like he actually believes. But is that business as usual to keep reminding everyone that he has a plane to catch and we need to wrap it up? Seems like he could have set some time between the first hearing and his next appointment

It’s a shame that Luban didn’t catch Graham out on that lie (”cell” for “confinement box/coffin”). I was shouting into my monitor — lot of good that did.

jes so ya know

BEST MONEY I EVER SPENT

an I sent money to Digby, so that’s sayin a lot …

besides, they pay me in stale leftover pizza*, so I ain’t as dedicated to the job as I could be …

*I thought I was hiring that Drew Rosenhaus guy to negotiate my contract, turns out I hired a guy named DAVE Rosenhaus. He aint as good as Drew, apparently …