Thank You G.W. For Keeping US Safe
Newsweek
By Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman
For
weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his
plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his
handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going
to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its
ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR),
clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos
of professional-misconduct allegations.
Thats
right you liberal pinko slimballs! You sleep safe in your beds at night
and drive your environmentally safe cars, while eating your tofu…
BASTARDS! G.W. made the REALLY hard decisions while your “light-skinned
Negro parades around like some political drag queen ready too take up
the ass. We Met the enemy on their terms and showed those Muslim
bastards what it feels like to be a virgin… right up the kazoos!
While
the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify
waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK
has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of
the report softened an earlier OPR finding. Previously, the report
concluded that two key authors—Jay Bybee, now a federal appellate court
judge, and John Yoo, now a law professor—violated their professional
obligations as lawyers when they crafted a crucial 2002 memo approving
the use of harsh tactics, say two Justice sources who asked for
anonymity discussing an internal matter. But the reviewer, career
veteran David Margolis, downgraded that assessment to say they showed
“poor judgment,” say the sources. (Under department rules, poor
judgment does not constitute professional misconduct.) The shift is
significant: the original finding would have triggered a referral to
state bar associations for potential disciplinary action—which, in
Bybee’s case, could have led to an impeachment inquiry.
I got your poor judgement… Bamboo Splints
The
report, which is still going through declassification, will provide
many new details about how waterboarding was adopted and the role that
top White House officials played in the process, say two sources who
have read the report but asked for anonymity to describe a sensitive
document. Two of the most controversial sections of the 2002
memo—including one contending that the president, as commander in
chief, can override a federal law banning torture—were not in the
original draft of the memo, say the sources. But when Michael Chertoff,
then-chief of Justice’s criminal division, refused the CIA’s request
for a blanket pledge not to prosecute its officers for torture, Yoo met
at the White House with David Addington, Dick Cheney’s chief counsel,
and then–White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. After that, Yoo inserted
a section about the commander in chief’s wartime powers and another
saying that agency officers accused of torturing Qaeda suspects could
claim they were acting in “self-defense” to prevent future terror
attacks, the sources say. Both legal claims have long since been
rejected by Justice officials as overly broad and unsupported by legal
precedent.
Yeah!~ Whomever thought this shit up… Give him or her a raise and a star or
two!
A
Justice official declined to explain why David Margolis softened the
original finding, but noted that he is a highly respected career lawyer
who acted without input from Holder. Yoo and Bybee (through his lawyer)
declined requests for comment.
I have a comment… Obama and crew are setting us up for another attack… REMEMBER, NEVER FORGET!
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