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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (475695)4/27/2009 11:40:29 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Read Replies (3) of 1576159
 
DOJ lawyers are not the arbiters.

Someday someone will explain that to Less, maybe when he's older.

It is highly unlikely any crimes were committed. If they start criminalizing the rendering of a legal opinion that turned out to be wrong, there is going to be a very long list of defendants to be prosecuted.

I tend to agree. Though the rulings themselves were almost certainly not criminal, the waterboarding clearly was.

I'm not a big fan of prosecuting previous administrations, i even wouldn't be shocked to see Obama issue pardons if this thing turns into a snowball.

But i don't think there's much question that waterboarding is torture, that the Bush administration acted in bad faith and did in fact torture. I think that's all pretty clear.

SD
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