"The reason I don’t want to go back any more than we have already done is because I know what happened. Out of fear, we overreacted. … They took a view of the law that I think was aggressive, and I would not have approached it that way. Right after 9/11, we all thought we were going to be hit again. So as we go back and try to hold people criminally liable. I think we’re doing a lot of damage to the country, because their mistakes were not criminal mistakes. They were mistakes made out of fear,"Apparently for Graham, if you approve something that is “clearly illegal,” it’s not “a criminal mistake” — so long as you are acting out of fear. And since most crimes are done out of fear, he really has narrowed it down.
- Lindsey Graham.
And when you look at the Abu Ghraib photos, who is afraid of who?
It makes the "Twinkies defense" sound like legal genius. Does he have any case law to support his assertion? Graham was a JAG lawyer, but it seems he wants to take a mulligan for years of post-9/11 behavior. Is there an on/off switch for following the law?
Why does he think the country will implode, as if we are weaklings who can't handle the truth, if we investigate these crimes? He admits, "I know what happened". What an utter scumbag. As if his pampered ass could deal with the most remote inconvenience.
We are 300 million strong. We can handle it.
Source: ThinkProgress
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