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AMERICAblog: Even Dianne Feinstein thinks the Bush admin. might have broken law

  • condew · 5 months ago
    There are at least 2 criminals involved. Cheney, of course, who issued the illegal order to keep congress in the dark, and at least one high level bureaucrat who accepted the illegal order and lied to congress. This was not just a vice president with contempt for the constitution acting alone, he had help from people who knew better but broke the law anyway. I don't want this handled like Abu Graib where we persecuted the little guys and not the chain of command up to Cheney, but there is definitely somebody with contempt for the constitution in a position of power in the CIA, and I don't want them to continue working in government.
  • RobGinChicago · 5 months ago
    Let me get this straight; Deadeye Dick ordered the CIA to keep this under their hats and the CIA complied with his order? Since when does the Vice President have the legal authority to order anything other than lunch?
  • Fleas correct the era · 5 months ago
    "We were kept in the dark. That's something that should never, ever happen again," said Feinstein.

    It [is] something that should never have happened in the first place.
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    And might never have happened, please note, if that same Feinstein had cared enough to simply get up off her butt, as thousands of her constituents pleaded with her to do, and act like a Democratic Senator.

    As anyone who phoned her office or wrote to her knows, that was asking far too much.
  • naschkatzehussein · 5 months ago
    Sure she's concerned because this affects her own turf. Is she concerned about the evidence of war crimes or the loss of civil liberties for the nation as a whole? I don't think so.
  • HereinDC · 5 months ago
    DF will be on the Stephanie Miller Show this morning
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 5 months ago
    Like this will make any difference??? Puhleez. There will be no hearings, no consequences, nothing. It will be business as usual in DC. We the people have little or no say in anything anyway.
  • LuZenMyMnd · 5 months ago
    I think there will be once Obama gets his main agenda through. He said he's willing to spend all his political capitol on health care and if he isn't re-elected that's okay w/him. But I think climate and health are his main issues....before he turns out congress and lets them do what they want to do as far as hearings and prosecutions. If he spends his capital on this right now, he'll achieve absolutely nothing from here on out. Repubs and blue dogs will make sure of it.
  • dbte2 · 5 months ago
    Never happen, no administration will go after a previous one with criminal law/indictments etc - because eventually THEY will be the prior administration and don't want to be on the hot seat either.
  • LuZenMyMnd · 5 months ago
    You may be right....but where does the "rule of law" come in at? The "no one is above the law" speech is just talk?

    I really want to believe that this administration is real and it's not all politics.
  • NotTimothyGeithner · 5 months ago
    The best way to make sure it won't happen again is to hold the people accountable. Traitors, like Cheney and Rumsfeld, have been let off time and time again.
  • shell · 5 months ago
    So, the thing that should never happen again ISN'T the crime, but just not notifying Congress? hahaha

    Cheney really screwed up! He broke the cardinal rule! "Always notify Congress (or, the Senate) of your crimes."
  • LuZenMyMnd · 5 months ago
    FINALLY!
  • Bookbinder · 5 months ago
    Oh, pu-lease. She is just fucking with your head, John. FOr her it's a great issue...she can pretend she is doing something progressive, when in the end , we all know she will drop the ball. So it's a great distraction, this feint of the left hand, while her right hand persues the corporate interests, as ever, especially in health reform. She is greedily giving the store away (to her husband Blum) while she distracts us. She doesn't actually give a shit about this. Hey, look over there ===> while Dianne Feinstein picks your pocket.
  • Kevin · 5 months ago
    DiFis husband Dickie Bird is fleecing California on the side as a “chancellor” in the uber corrupt University of California system.
  • Eleanore · 5 months ago
    He's not Chancellor. He's chair of the Board of Regents. And the university isn't corrupt. It's some of the leadership.
  • aahpat · 5 months ago
    "We were kept in the dark. That's something that should never, ever happen again," said Feinstein.

    Especially so because of those right-wing oriented blinders growing out of her fetid brain.
  • thromulese · 5 months ago
    Now I’d be willing to bet that Feinstein will come down AGAINST a thorough investigation of exactly what happened, or to prosecute those that broke the law. She is all talk and no action. She is simply a corporatist shill.

    The rule of law is sooooo pre 911.
  • obamacrat · 5 months ago
    I'm sorry, did you say "might have"? I now begin to scream and throw things. MIGHT HAVE?
  • scrow774 · 5 months ago
    Does it matter now? If i burn down your house then afterwards say "Whoops i was wrong to do that. Arrest me." Does that justice rebuild your house and replace the lost things? No. Sorry to say it but the damage has already been done. And besides, Obama seems to be giving the bush administration the pardon, so it doesn't seem like it will matter anyways. Best we can do is apologize to the world and work twice as hard to restore whatever credibility we can.
  • blueoysterjoe · 5 months ago
    Unfortunately, I think this is classic Feinstein. I used to live in California and have been following her for years. Here is how she handles pretty much everything that is good for the country but not good for Republicans or her corporate donors:

    1. Someone suggests creating a law, making it illegal to eat babies.

    2. Feinstein immediately comes out and says she is "open to" the law making it illegal to eat babies.

    3. Feinstein votes against the law making it illegal to eat babies.

    Feinstein is a Republican who makes chirping noises to her liberal constituents but then votes otherwise. When she is "open to" something or "concerned about" something, it means diddly.
  • RM · 5 months ago
    Correction: They don't get much more liberal than Feinstein.