"These memos are not an honest attempt to set the legal limits on interrogations, which was the authors’ statutory obligation. They were written to provide legal immunity for acts that are clearly illegal, immoral and a violation of this country’s most basic values.That's where we are at. It's a bad movie and we had to sit through it all. The Mayberry Machiavellians are caught with their hands in the torture cookie jar that they made. They asked themselves if it was OK to torture and got their own lawyers to back them up. Idiotic logic.
It sounds like the plot of a mob film, except the lawyers asking how much their clients can get away with are from the C.I.A. and the lawyers coaching them on how to commit the abuses are from the Justice Department. And it all played out with the blessing of the defense secretary, the attorney general, the intelligence director and, most likely, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney."
The conservatives, confronted with the truth about their idols, cower with their childish new leadership spewing non-sequiturs like "Obama is a fascist".
Really? You end torture, secret prisons and rendition and restore habeas corpus and Rule of Law and you're called a fascist? The absurdity is staggering. It's like having a conversation with a child who's only comeback is a warped reversed "I know you are but what am I".
With all the harsh reality, Conservatives offer not one second of remorse or candidly rethinking your devotions? It's just another day, another attack, another stone they can throw at the new President.
For those of us who suspected this behavior from the start, what do you say to a person calling Obama all these names? They don't know the definition of the words they use, yet support a political party that did the very same things they decry for 8 years. Unreal.
Source: NYT
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