Wow: Condi Tries To Cover Her Ass…..and fails miserably.
Cenk Dissects, but the credit goes to the Stanford students. Just stunning, if this ever does get to court…they are toast. They have had months now to come up with some ass covering bullshit…..and THIS is the best they can do???
You can feeeel the panic, you can practically taste the denial.
Really nothing I can say does it justice.
Videos via Think Progress. Head over there and read their analysis too.
But this leaves no doubt in my mind that Condi, at least, really believed that they weren’t doing anything wrong. They bought there own bullshit in their panic after 9/11. And REALLY believed that if Bush …if the President…said it based on the Bybee et al memos…it was legal. I really doubt now that they ever let the reality of what they were doing actually penetrate their reality bubble.
Nothing illustrates the danger of the Unitary Executive, the concept of The President as King, more clearly. The King not only do anything he wants, he can believe anything he wants. Even that torture is GOOD.
Especially with this moron as King.
All I can do is shake my head….and do everything I can to make sure that, just as with the much greater horror of the holocaust (if you can measure horror) that we come out of this tragic era with the same phrease burned into our collective brains.
Never Again.
(Which, btw makes her statement that Al Qaeda was “more dangerous than the Nazis” ring even more hollow…and bitterly sad)
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The Human Race needs a reminder of just what monsters we can justify and rationalize our selves into being.
We really do need trials to memorialize and sear this lesson into our tiny little human brains.
Never Again:
are reduced to begging for their delusions to be accepted as reality, now…
don’t even remember Nixon or the ass he proved himself to be.
Another effect of pardons. This theory of governance was allowed to flourish in these foolish minds just because there was insufficiently meaningful “retribution.”
America needs justice and a Big reminder that the rule of law is our foundation. Time to prosecute.
I don’t know about Rice. I think she did know, and that she didn’t (and doesn’t) care. I think we’re (that includes me, too) more likely to give her a pass on her moral failures because she is a she. And because she doesn’t actually have sulfuric acid smoke steaming up from behind her like Dick Cheney does.
She was National Security Advisor during the most abused and unchecked years W was in power, after all…
Do you know that KGB is an acronym for what translates to Department of Homland Security? Just thought I’d throw that out there.
How could she not know that waterboarding is torture? In that respect, to me, she’s an absolute liar. That Bush assured everyone that “enhanced interrogations” were within the law, I don’t doubt that at all.
And the worst of all this horror is the fact that about 98% of all these persons were INNOCENT — picked up in “sweeps” or sold off for money.
…panic and denial in the morning.