Comments on: Gitmo Show Trials: The Other Retroactive Immunity

By: nonplussed

nonplussed — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:06:14 +0000

Very good point! I pray that their memories are long and bitter. PBIAB!

By: TLinGA

TLinGA — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:44:32 +0000

The Marsupial Commissions Act suits the efforts and temperament of the JAG quite well, especially when the politically motivated top brass see the benefits of exercising the MCA.

By: Petrocelli

Petrocelli — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:42:09 +0000

My sentiments exactly, that Bloch is getting paid back for going after Rove …

By: Petrocelli

Petrocelli — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:40:21 +0000

The request for appointing someone like Whitehouse to lead the Dem questioning … all too often, these hearings devolve into a P.R. stunt for the Congresscritters …

By: Petrocelli

Petrocelli — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:38:32 +0000

HAH ! Nice catch but I was contrasting the opinion of politicians V non politicians, like Fein, Turlington, etc.

Bring on the Celtics !

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:38:03 +0000

What better way to undermine a critic’s credibility than to put him in jail, or shout in the newspapers that that’s where he ought to be? Pity about the rule of law, though.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:34:52 +0000

It should remind everyone how radical the CheneyBush regime is.

Many in the JAG Corps are conservatives. They take great pride in traditional views of the role and limits of the military in American life. They have great respect for the rule of law because without it, the enhanced discipline of military life is just submission to power. To CheneyBush, the military is just another tool, like the law, with which to beat its enemies.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:30:17 +0000

I agree with egregious, you have laid bare the truth of the present and, likely, of the future with explicit precision.

By: egregious

egregious — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:15:49 +0000

Wow. Excellent analysis.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:13:45 +0000

I’m sure the ReichWing has already planned how to respond to a DFH President who throws out their corrupted criminal processes lock, stock and barrel. I imagine that’s one reason Rove is no longer in the White House, though he’s never left the building. He’s planning ahead. And he’ll be well-paid for it.

Overturning these processes — in Gitmo, the NSA, the FBI, the DOJ, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — has to be done with the best legal, political and military minds the Democrats can muster. Because they need to do it without being shoehorned into a Seven Days in May scenario. Because doing the honorable, legally and politically correct things will overturn the house that Dick built.

It would jeopardize the existence of the GOP and the careers and livelihoods of its top politicians and retainers, some of whom could go to jail without the prospect of a pardon. It would jeopardize the careers and pensions of dozens of top military officers. It would jeopardize lobbyists and their corporations.

It would cheer half of America, make a quarter of it fear too much change too quickly, and enrage a quarter of it to rebellion because they saw in it the coming of the anti-Christ. A conversion of political storms that not even Oliver Stone could write a script for.

Not that we shouldn’t bloody well do it. But let’s not pretend that it will be smoothly bipartisan, require only modest effort or sacrifice, or not distract from managing the scores of problems Shrub has FUBARed. Even recognizing that Shrub has left us problems that need fixing this GOP will viciously refute, because down that slope lies chaos for them and a better America for the rest of us.