Graham: Lawmakers, Too, Could Be Prosecuted

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Prosecuting former Bush administration officials for signing off on harsh interrogation techniques would be a “legal nightmare,” for the nation that could do lasting damage to national security, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News Thursday.

Moreover, members of Congress who were kept informed of the techniques at the time they were being used could, in theory, also be subject to prosecution, said Graham, R-S.C., who also is a JAG colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

“Any member of Congress who was read into this program are in the same boat as the (Bush) lawyers,’’ Graham said. “Then you’re part of it, so where does it all end.”

Graham said lawmakers have to put themselves in the mindset that Bush administration officials were in immediately following the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in 2001.

“You’ve got to remember that right after 9/11 we all believed we were going to be attacked again,” said Graham, who sits on the judiciary and armed services committees. The attorneys and other officials were trying to develop interrogation techniques that would prevent further attacks and yield intelligence on members of al-Qaida still at large.

“They gave a legal opinion,” said Graham. “They weren’t conspiring to commit a crime.

“Some of the rational I disagree with, but it’s not a crime to disagree with Lindsey Graham. Those people were trying to defend the national the best they could. We need to look forward right now, not backward. They’re not criminals.”

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Should this happen you'll never again see such fancy Tap Dancing trying to CYA.
TV show Dancing with the Star's would be in last place for viewer watching.

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[dennisw]

Should this happen you'll never again see such fancy Tap Dancing trying to CYA.

I think comrad Pelosi is already doing the "no knowledge" two step.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennt...rboarding.html She Didn't!!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennt...ng_in_02_.html She Did!!

Queen Bee already shakin' that thang!

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[echoes]

Originally Posted by BMT

Prosecuting former Bush administration officials for signing off on harsh interrogation techniques would be a “legal nightmare,” for the nation that could do lasting damage to national security, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News Thursday.

IMHO, this is simple. We should send any and all dims, under the leadership of "THE GREAT" Nancy Pelosi, to Afghanistan! Honestly, it may educate them being under the control of two-by-four weilding men, in a position of power!!!--->yep this makes me mad...
This IS America!!!

Holly

[Richard]

Only in America.

I wouldn't be surprised if an investigation of "special effin' prosecutors" uncovers a pair of nylons belonging to Marilyn Monroe in the Resolute Desk, Jimmy Hoffa's bones in a shoe box stuck up on the top shelf in a janitor's closet in the Hoover Building, the 'real' weapon that shot JFK with LBJs fingerprints on it under the floorboards of the study in the Naval Observatory during renovation, and Nancy Pelosi's inter-galactic green card and navigator's permit from the planet Phelon (endorsed by Janet Napolitano and Diane Feinstein) locked in a safety deposit box co-registered to Barney Frank and Perez Hilton...and that what was done after 9-11 was, in fact, not quite kosher...but understandable under the circumstances and not worthy of further investigation or prosecution. All for a paltry $50M-100M of our diminshed dollars. Hell, I'd be willing to write that report for only around $5M and save the taxpayers a lot of time and $$$.

Is this a great country or what!

Richard's $.025

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Originally Posted by Richard

Only in America.

I wouldn't be surprised if an investigation of "special effin' prosecutors" uncovers a pair of nylons belonging to Marilyn Monroe in the Resolute Desk, Jimmy Hoffa's bones in a shoe box stuck up on the top shelf in a janitor's closet in the Hoover Building, the 'real' weapon that shot JFK with LBJs fingerprints on it under the floorboards of the study in the Naval Observatory during renovation, and Nancy Pelosi's inter-galactic green card and navigator's permit from the planet Phelon (endorsed by Janet Napolitano and Diane Feinstein) locked in a safety deposit box co-registered to Barney Frank and Perez Hilton...and that what was done after 9-11 was, in fact, not quite kosher...but understandable under the circumstances and not worthy of further investigation or prosecution. All for a paltry $50M-100M of our diminshed dollars. Hell, I'd be willing to write that report for only around $5M and save the taxpayers a lot of time and $$$.

Is this a great country or what!

Richard's $.025

And we find out that after setting up the plans for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt had Richard Nixon purchase “x-ray” guns from the Chinese and store them in area 51, so that Reagan could sell them to the Zodiac Killer, who kidnapped Elvis, and had Amelia Earhart fly him, and Judge Crater to Atlantis, which is right in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. Pictures would then appear of “Jimmie” Carter at GITMO in nylons and garter belt, with a whip, taken by a photographer from the New York Times, showing that Carter was the real torturer of al-Qaida, along with Larry Flint and Jerry Falwell, who were the Masterminds of the Reverend Moon fundraisers out of Parody, Texas.

SnT

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hah... legal proceedings my ass. The wrong people in government are teflon coated for all the wrong reasons.

Blaggo has been mocking the system since day one, and what jail is he in? In spite of all the lies and scandal, in spite of all the chest thumping and posturing in front of the cameras, Roland Burris is still the junior senator from Illinois, what happened there? Nancy Pelosi funneled AT LEAST 100,000 dollars from her political action committee to her husband, even after she publicly spoke to ban that very behavior. What ever became of that?
The answer is simply, "who cares" The list of unbelievable behavior goes on and on a national scale, no one really cares...

America has turned a blind eye on its leaders behavior for decades, as long as there was a little something handed out from the public coffers as a distraction and now that indifference is coming home to roost.

just a thought...