Quite frankly, it would have been nice to see some of this same talk while Bush was President and the Left, included the elected Congress Critters, were going pure, utter barking moonbat
A “furious” Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a “disgraceful” Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview just now with POLITICO.
“It’s bulls***. It’s disgraceful. You wonder which side they’re on,” he said of the attorney general’s move, which he described as a “declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense.”
“It’s a total breach of faith, and either the president is intentionally caving to the left wing of his party or he’s lost control of his administration,” said King, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Homeland Security and a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
Surprisingly, some of the same folks who had no problem with the General Betrayus ad, calling our troops Nazi’s and members of Pol Pots regime, wanting to lose in Iraq, etc and so on (you know the hit parade,) have a problem with this.
- Excitable Andy, the “last true conservative,” seems to be saying that the American People are worse than the Iranian regime.
- Glenn “Sock Puppet” Greenwald is working himself up into a fine jihadi supporting froth.
- Instaputz goes all Stalin, first saying we need to follow the law, but, “King needs to be purged.” Thank you, Comrade. Thank you for entitling you article “Why does Peter King hate America?” winning the “Most Hysterical and Delusional Unhinged Moonbat Award” of the day
PS: Tom Maguire catches something interesting in Sock Puppet’s screed.
Teach when Reagan championed the Treaty on Torture he not only promised that the USA would NEVER use torture he also promised that ALL torture would be prosecuted. This is what he promised the world when the USA ratified the treaty. This is what Reagan said in his signing statement “The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant step in the development during this century of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately still prevalent in the world today.
The core provisions of the Convention establish a regime for international cooperation in the criminal prosecution of torturers relying on so-called ‘universal jurisdiction.’ Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution.”
Laws were broken, the fact that some paid attorneys said that laws were not being broken is in material. I am sure Gotti could have found some shill attorney to say what he did was legal. The Nazis all had laws saying that what they did was legal. What was done was torture and it MUST ALWAYS be prosecuted because we are a nation of laws, the POTUS does not have the power to either break laws or to choose to not prosecute them? He does have clemency and powers to pardon. But the laws must be considered sacrosanct/