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No professional misconduct for the lawyers in Bush’s Justice Department? — 5 Comments

  1. This issue has been potentially explosive since the day that the hard left began attacking the Bush administration for their various policies and strategies to combat Islamist terrorism. If the left was successful in inditing or bringing legal action against these individuals, no future President or member of his administration could formulate any defense policy without worrying that someone, somewhere could bring criminal charges against them because of their judgment. This would trickle down to the military as well. No commanding officer could make a decision without being lawyered up.

    The proper thing for the left to do was to show that laws were violated and bring a writ of impeachment against Bush. They could not do that, but that didn’t stop them from trying to turn policy decisions, reached after due deliberation, into crimes. Just over the top vindictiveness by the left.

  2. my guess would be that at this point the Obama administration is afraid that Obama’s successor could do the same sort of thing to Holder and company

    I think there’s something else at play here. If the justice department continued along this path, eventually Both Bybee and Yoo would end up with “their day in court,” whether it’s some form of bar review or impeachment proceedings, where they would stand a chance of being exonerated. Walking this back means that the administration can still damn Bybee and Yoo without having to back anything up.

    Think about the Human Rights Tribunal ruling against Mark Steyn last year(?)

    KRB

  3. The Athenian navy defeated the Spartans at the Battle of Arginusae, which could have been an important step in deciding the Peloponnesian War in Athens’ favor.

    The commanders decided to divide the fleet, with half pursuing the fleeing spartans and the other half rescuing Athenian sailors in the water. A storm arose, breaking off the pursuit and resulting in the loss of hundreds of sailors.

    Athens was celebrating the victory, having been told by messengers, when the fleet returned to port. Within the continual rancour that was political Athens, one faction seized the moment and accused the generals of deriliction of duty, resulting the the needless deaths of so many citizens.

    Six of Athens; most capable military leaders were tried, convicted and executed. From a distance, Spartan commander Lysander wondered why Athens would inflict such a blow upon itself. His puzzlement didn’t stop him from prosecuting the war from there forward. Within a short time Sparta defeated Athens and ended democracy as we have always admired it.

    The current administration consists of the acolytes of Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and others who truly believe that the Ameican culture deserves a reckoning, even if their mentors phrase it as Rev. Wright did, that the “chickens have come home to roost.”

    The people sworn to protect us believe that we deserve a beating.

  4. “The people sworn to protect us believe that we deserve a beating.” Very well put.

    In the subtleties of manipulation both speculations about the decision to soften may be true. Holder could well have intimated that Margolis “needn’t to go heavy for our sake.” A wink’s as good as a nod, y’know.

  5. So what will happen to all those lawyers who advocated for, and the doctors who murdered the unborn … um … performed ‘abortions’ … when public sentiment changes to an understanding that, in the vast majority of cases, terminating a fetus as a ‘life style choice’
    IS murder?

    Fine.

    Go after true patriots like like Bybee and Yoo.

    They had best remember there is no statue of limitations on murder or the advocacy or abetting of same. Which might be why the liberals are so insistent that prisoners have a soft time in jail.

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