I suspect the Obama administration is ‘exercising caution’ in delaying release of the three memos AND in adding another, but not for the nefarious reasons you all are so willing to attribute as Obama being ‘in bed’ with Cheney. Cheney had been hanging around practically daring Obama to do blow his cool AND possibly the lid off this whole thing – prematurely.

Our new president is smarter than that and knows what ‘priority’ means. Without some stability in the economy and the world, none of ‘this’ is going to matter very much.

I’d rather have it right than in haste…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/us/politics/01terror.html

…”A draft of the report completed in December by the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility is described by officials who have been briefed on its contents as highly critical of three authors of legal memorandums on interrogation: Jay S. Bybee, John C. Yoo and Mr. Bradbury.

Answering a query from the two senators last week, M. Faith Burton, the acting head of legislative affairs at the Justice Department, suggested that the report was far from ready for public release. She said copies had been given to the former department lawyers whose work it criticizes and the department was awaiting their comments before beginning additional reviews.

“Due to the complexity and classification level of the draft report, the review process described above likely will require substantial time and effort,” Ms. Burton wrote.

In their reply on Tuesday, Mr. Durbin and Mr. Whitehouse objected to the delays and expressed concern that the multiple reviews might water down the report”…

Good to have you back.

Seconded!

Mr. Holder and Mr. Obama appear to me to be national cowards on matters of war crimes…

http://www.goodnightbush.com/librarium/

Horton says Leahy is bringing up Truth Commissions again because “Perhaps Leahy just realized that his proposal got support from the nation’s most popular Republican—Colin Powell.” (link at sig)

I guess it depends on whether Powell is on the side unleashing “holy hell” or putting out those fires, behind the scenes.

“Jill and Buddha and Mespo, you guys are up awfully early on a Saturday morning!”

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That’s the plight of the diligent.

I missed that one and agree with rafflaw that it clearly indicates he won’t be telling the truth. Brennan’s claim that:

“argued that release of the memos could embarrass foreign intelligence services who cooperated with the CIA,” is ridiculous on its face. This information is already public knowledge in the UK, detainees have written complete accounts of their torture and rendition which are published. Canada has apologized and compensated a victim with which they cooperated in an unlawful rendition leading to torture. About the only people who aren’t allowed to know are the US public. Brennan’s cries are not the reason this is being withheld from the public in the US.

rafflaw,

It’s nice to hear the birds in the morning!

BTW, Did you catch Maddow’s interview with Powell in which he said “We had no meetings on torture… we talked about what is it we can do with respect to trying to get information from individuals.” See the difference? Me neither.

I was encouraged though by Powell’s view that “we will just have to wait until the full written record is available” as it apparently means he sides with Holder. As much as I disagree with Powell’s characterization above, his support will hopefully lead to the “full written record” eventually coming out.

Hey Turley, you mean NOTHING to this administration. You and your rat pack at MSNBC are clowns to be used as far as the Obama adminstration is concerned.

Turley why don’t you and your little group of haters just buy and island somewhere and go form your own little “perfect” country. LOL>

IDIOTS.

“Clive Stafford Smith is accused of ‘unprofessional conduct’ by Pentagon officials who monitor communication between Gitmo prisoners and their lawyers.

Lawyers for Binyam Mohamed face the incredible prospect of a six-month jail sentence in America after writing a letter to President Obama detailing their client’s allegations of torture by U.S. agents.” (alternet)

This relates to a redacted memo (redacted by our own DOD) sent to Obama outlining the torture of Binyam Mohamed, including that occuring and intensifyin under Obama’s leadership. The memo was believed to have been redacted in order to provide the president with “plausible” deniability regarding the information on torture.

There is obviously a concerted effort by the Obama administration to protect war criminals by any means necessary. There are too many actions too ignore this conslusion. By this time Obama is, as JT pointed out earlier, making himself an accesory to war crimes. If the information about intensification of war crimes in Gitmo is coming out, as it will in the UK trial, that could mean Obama might be implicated in war crimes himself.

There is no justification, other than the protection of war criminals to withhold these memos. The administration has claimed it would release them. They keep asking for extensions to do so. I hope the court rules against them and the information is released to the public, to whom it belongs.

Fear has broken loose.

Holy Hell will break loose unless the Bush Crime Family is made to pay for ordering torture and violating the Constitution.

I’d once again remind Brennan that no one wants the torturers proper unless they strayed from being sadists into being murderers of rapists. We want the people who ordered the torture and, hey, if it embarrasses allies that were stupid enough to help Bush Co. violate our Constitution and international law that’s just too damn bad.

But the Neocons who gave CIA cover? They need to meet an unpleasant end. That is not negotiable. If they aren’t brought to justice, Brennan will think Holy Hell is a good alternative to what will happen absent punishing the guilty.