ACLU chief to Obama: Pardon Bush for torture to establish he's a criminal

[Jedi Knight]

This is an old discussion dredged up by democrats to take the focus off the multiple problems of the Obama administration.

Called "Wag the Dog".

 

[church mouse guy]

Islam chops off heads. Flashing soap and water at a terrorists is torture?

Feinstein looks terrible, as if she hated her own country.

If Obama accuses Bush of a crime, a lot of his administration are going to jail if Hillary loses in 2016.

 

[Jedi Knight]

Obamacare is torture.

 

[HankD]

This is an old discussion dredged up by democrats to take the focus off the multiple problems of the Obama administration.

There is nothing to really discuss. It's a partisan report written by democrats without bothering to even interview anyone that worked for the CIA.

Pure politics. Nothing else.

A willing press will go along and push everything else off the front page. Even Gruber, being one of the smartest men in America with one of the poorest memories in history will go to Section B.

Nevermind the hypocrisy.

The left press and admin keep throwing the Republican spaghetti against the wall and so far nothing has stuck. To get a scandal or embarrassment against this administration one only has to wait a day two (at the most).

Even we, the "stupid" Americans, can see through the hypocrisy of those of this admin who are hand wringing about water boarding terrorists are also supporters of the gruesome slaughter of babies.


HankD

 

[Don]

We're all pretty well conditioned now to accept all kinds of things we'd find shocking to our sensibilities in America past.

I blame it on video games and action movies starring Arnold, Sly, Mel, and Bruce....

 

[JohnDeereFan]

Help me out here. Isn't the mission of the American Civil Liberties Union, at least nominally, to protect people from being made into criminals by the legal system without their constitutional rights being fully protected? Because if that's the case - and I'm pretty sure it is - wow, ACLU executive director Anthony Romero sure turns the mission on its ear with this idea:

President Obama needs to pardon George W. Bush for torturing detainees. Why? To establish that torture is illegal, thus making those who were supposedly involved with it in need of pardons.

Given that Obama has shown an unwillingness to indict members of the Bush administration over the CIA’s use of waterboarding, “black sites,” and other means of collecting information that the White House now calls torture, Romero wrote that issuing pardons would at least make clear that what the former administration did after Sept. 11, 2001, was illegal.

“Pardons would make clear that crimes were committed; that the individuals who authorized and committed torture were indeed criminals; and that future architects and perpetrators of torture should beware,” he wrote.

“Prosecutions would be preferable, but pardons may be the only viable and lasting way to close the Pandora’s box of torture once and for all.”

http://www.caintv.com/aclu-chief-to-obama-pardon-bus

There was a period of about three or four years where the ACLU started to live up to their name and I became a big fan of theirs during those years. Now, it looks like they're back to their old progressive socialist ways.