Comments on: Durham to be Torture Special Prosecutor

By: Jeff Kaye

Jeff Kaye — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:33:00 +0000

So, we really don’t have a prosecutor, but a govt atty conducting a “preliminary review” to “determine whether there is sufficient predication to warrant a full investigation of [the] matter.”

Hmmm… with so much going on, I’m only getting to the “prosecutor” issue now. Plenty of room here to jog around awhile and decide later what exactly to do. Or am I wrong to consider this not yet an investigation, or appointment of a prosecutor per se?

By: OldFatGuy

OldFatGuy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:38:40 +0000

Wow, what a coincidence that Holder does this on the same day the IG report is released to the public.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:23:15 +0000

Whitehouse sang the same bubbly praise about Durham when he was first assigned the torture tape investigation nearly two years ago; Durham still hasn’t been able to find the patently obvious crimes that are standing right in front of him. I love Whitehouse and all, but I am not biting on this happy talk from him.

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:15:27 +0000

Sheldon Whitehouse has a very high opinion of him. Seems they worked together when Whitehouse was in the Rhode Island USA office (was the USA? or an AUSA?) and Durham was an investigator in the Connecticut USA office.

Good line from Jane Mayer about torturing KSM. “They could have just bought a copy of his interview with Al Jazeera and found out all of that.

Powell’s former Chief of Staff Wilkerson makes the point that if they’re worried about demoralizing the CIA, they should be thinking of the 98% of CIA employees that are being demoralized by watching the 2% get away with torture.

By: fatster

fatster — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:08:11 +0000

Remember this?

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:55:28 +0000

“Chumped change”,Chuck?

By: ChuckinDenton

ChuckinDenton — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:40:45 +0000

The more things “change”…

By: Leen

Leen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:31:11 +0000

Thanks

Why do the mucky mucks wonder why there is so much disrespect for the law. Let the Bush administration criminals walk (well maybe not only time will tell)

and Peltier is refused parole because “The US Parole Commission told the sixty-four-year-old Peltier on Friday that his release would “depreciate the seriousness of [his] offenses” and “promote disrespect for the law.” It was Peltier’s first full parole hearing in fifteen years, and he will not be eligible for parole again until July 2024, at the age of seventy-nine.”

http://www.democracynow.org/20.....rd_peltier

By: RevBev

RevBev — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:26:00 +0000

Good NPR interview with Scott Horton. He states, and elaborates, that he prosecutor can & must where the facts lead him, including to the policy makers, or the White House. Very good discussion.

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:16:10 +0000

Raw Story » Man who sold Iraq war now vetting embedded journos: reportMan who sold Iraq war now vetting embedded journos: report; » Pentagon may have been ordered to cover up investigations, columnist says …
rawstory.com/…/iraq-war-salesman-now-vetting-journos/ – 6 hours ago – Similar