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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (475678)	4/27/2009 10:53:31 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576929

If your lawyer tells you you can rob a bank, can you now legally rob a bank? Of course not. But this is nowhere near so clear cut as you're trying to make it. It isn't robbing a bank. It is drawing a line in very difficult circumstances. And this is why Congress was briefed. There were minutes taken of those briefings and they're going to be produced before this is over with. And who said what with whom in attendance is going to be public knowledge. The Ds are trying to make all the political hay they can right now. It is their MO.

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (475678)	4/27/2009 11:14:22 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1576929

"Just substitute the the word waterboarding with the word murder and you can see just how silly and wrong .... If your lawyer tells you you can rob a bank... Not at all applicable. My lawyer might tell me that certain uses of the banks money, which are frowned upon, would not legally be termed embezzlement ... say personal loans that I benefit from. Most people would say that is unethical and wrong even that I should go to jail, if it were done to their dissatisfaction...for example when the bank fails. They might even call me a thief but that doesn't make me a thief. My lawyer might tell me I have the right to take some crazed schizo out who is threatening me with a weapon. On lookers might judge that it wasn't necessary or that I had better options and call me a murderer but self defense is not murder, in the eyes of the law. Just substituting the word waterboarding with torture, does not make it torture. Torture under the law is not just an action, it involves a context and interpretation of circumstance. The question of whether or not it is allowable under our laws must be asked and answered by authorities, which it was during the Bush Admin. Case closed. You're getting ridiculous. I notice you ignored the question about rendition and we both know why.