In other words, if there is a classified meeting in which members of Congress are informed of classified info, and told the means of obtaining that info – if the means is illegal (i.e., torture) are they not then obligated to come forward and declare the President a criminal? Since they did not, they are now in ‘CYA’ mode. So, they will not take action against the President or Vice President because in doing so, they will reveal their own criminality, is that right?

Can the American people grant Congress immunity so they can pursue the crimes of the White House?

I have an unpleasant sense of what it must be like from being knocked over by large waves in the ocean when I was a child.

Thanks for your appearances on Countdown. Always interesting and enlightening.

Professor Turley, I’ve mentioned you in the comments section of my article in this week’s History News Network (hnn.us). My article is about Federalist #8.

http://hnn.us/articles/43815.html

No other issue of the day so stains our national honor.

After years of sneering at the “europeanization” of American mores, this current administration has europeanized us like no one before: by allowing our values to be trampled in the dust and adapting a cynical amoral realpolitik code of action that tolerates torture, pre-emptive wars, intentional deceptions to the public and rule of the individual over the rule of law.

Thanks indeed to this administration for bringing old world sophistication to our shores.