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Tracy Hale
um...hate to tell you this but rendition is just a fancy word for surrender...just because the last admin. butchered it doesn't mean this one will or the last one did...
What were you saying about education??
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I realize this wasn't directed at me, but you do bring up a fair point. Previously I had said that if we're all adults that should be sufficient. However, if we aren't educated and informed adults we aren't going to be able to have any meaningful dialogue. Thank you. That is a good point.
Lifelong Republican John Batchelor posts regularly on the Daily Beast.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-14/attack-of-the-zombie-republicans
Republicans are afraid of the site.
I was unaware it was considered to be the equivalent of Daily KOS or The Nation.
The Daily Beast has hit a lot of home runs in the past three months.
Christopher Buckley, Tina Brown.
Batchelor is a fringe character now, lost his big-time gig.
RSU
you seem to think that the president actually has a say in anything ????????????
you didnt get the memo about him just being another puppet ??????????
Those memos never leave the institution walls; they are for the inmates only.
Delusion
"Memo?" What "memo?" I'd think that would be something newsworthy rather than simply being an item posted on a "memo."
Have no idea what you're trying to say but as a 59 yr old black man it is almost freaky to read about a black AG & POTUS after 300 years o slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow. This is and always was as much our country as any European-American most of whom came here after 1900. That said "we are one".
fallout4U: What is more important?3 guys waterboarded or
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False statement.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-05/how-many-were-tortured-to-death/
The Dailybeast??? LOL
I was unaware that it's a laughable resource.
Meghan McCain posts there regularly.
"'The American public needs to understand we're talking about rape and murder here. We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience,' Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told reporters after Rumsfeld testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. 'We're talking about rape and murder -- and some very serious charges.'
So you think you are better informed by denying sources than a Republican Senator?
RSU
"I wonder if Holder understands that his action may also put Al Gore and Bill Clinton in jeopardy of prosecution as well,..."
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Statute of limitations. They have been out of office more than 8 years. Teh statute of limitations is 7.
I'm sure the well educated Attorney General is aware of that.
Too bad you aren't
I'm betting that for some high crimes, there are no statute limitations.
BTW, which particular crime are you referring to that only goes back seven years?
from the Rachel Maddow show: interview with Daphne Eviatar, attorney.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29301636/
MADDOW: So of the big potential crimes that could be investigated from the Bush era, which of them would pose or could pose statute of limitations issues?
EVIATAR: Well, the biggest one really is torture. There is an eight-year statute of limitations when it comes to prosecuting torture. And we know and there"s been strong evidence that there was torture including waterboarding and all sorts of bizarre humiliations of detainees at Abu Ghraib and possibly also at Guantanamo Bay starting very early on in 2002.
Now if you give that eight years, that means by 2010 it could be too late to prosecute.
MADDOW: The statute of limitation - I mean, I know it from sort of like, procedural crime dramas. I don"t know it as a lawyer. It literally means that you are immune from being brought up on charges for those things even if it can be conclusively proven that you did them?
EVIATAR: Yes. Generally - I mean, sometimes, there are various exceptions and you can try to find exceptions. But as a general matter, once the crime is committed, the statute of limitations begins to run. Eight years later, if you tortured somebody in March 2002 and there is strong evidence that people were tortured in March 2002, by March 2010, it could be too late to prosecute.
No statute of limitations on murder.
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