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To: Real Man who wrote (16958)1/29/2009 5:26:05 PM
From: ggersh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71432
 
Although he is talking that way, which is a start, I think everyone in America wants heads to roll. As they say action speaks louder than words. But America at this time needs the action, jail time and hangings a good start



To: Real Man who wrote (16958)1/30/2009 2:21:42 AM
From: NOW2 Recommendations  Respond to of 71432
 
ummm i missed something: didnt he vote for it?



To: Real Man who wrote (16958)1/30/2009 2:37:07 PM
From: NOW  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71432
 
Obama is merely protecting government perogatives right???

"In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called torture memos that Barack Obama last week sought to nullify.

But now President Obama’s incoming crew of lawyers has a new and somewhat awkward job: defending Yoo in federal court.

Next week, Justice Department lawyers are set to ask a San Francisco federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against Yoo by Jose Padilla, a New York man held without charges on suspicion of being an Al Qaeda operative plotting to set off a "dirty bomb."

The suit contends that Yoo’s legal opinions authorized Bush to order Padilla’s detention in a Navy brig in South Carolina and encouraged military officials to subject Padilla to aggressive interrogation techniques, including death threats and long-term sensory deprivation.

That’s not all. On Thursday, Justice Department lawyers are slated to be in Charleston, S.C., to ask a federal magistrate there to dismiss another lawsuit charging about a dozen current and former government officials with violating Padilla’s rights in connection with his unusual detention on U.S. soil, without charges or a trial.

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Obama’s lawyers aren’t the first at Justice to have to stand by a prior administration’s legal work — whether they agree with it or not — merely in the interest of protecting U.S. government prerogatives."