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State of the PresidentSo How's the Empire Going Obama?

Disbar Torture Lawyers Press ConferenceNational Press Club Washington D.C.

From The Raw Story:

Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, former Reagan administration Associated Attorney General Bruce Fein lamented President Barack Obama's decision to shut his eyes to open confessions of war crimes by members of the prior administration.

"It's at the highest levels that the rule of law finds its greatest majesty," he told reporters. "That's why the United States was so idolized after Nixon left. We said that the most powerful man in the world is subject to the law. He cannot defy it."

Fein was making the historical argument with respect to the Obama administration's continued refusal to investigate the Bush administration's torture program, which was designed and specifically authorized by high-level officials.

"[Today] we have an instance where the President of the United States -- Harvard Law Review, a Constitutional Law professor who knows what the law is -- shuts his eyes to open confessions," he said. "We authorized torture, for which there is no exception."

Fein was speaking on behalf of Velvet Revolution, a coalition of over 150 peace and religious groups, that is leading the charge to get attorneys involved in the Bush administration's torture program thrown out of office and the legal profession.
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Bruce Fein is joined by Velevet Revolution lawyer Kevin Zeese and others in the following video of their presentation.

Larisa Alexandrovna of The Raw Story reports here with links to the complete complaint. (MS Word Document)

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The Obama Mantra

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UN Investigator:Obama Breaking International Law

While Obamma can be lauded for his release of the Bush Torture Memos, his refusal to bring charges against those involved and his proclamation of protection for them are abhorrent!

In fact, it appears it is even illegal:

The United Nation’s top torture investigator has suggested it is illegal under International law for President Barack Obama to announce that the United States government has no intention of prosecuting low-level CIA officers who carried out torture sanctioned by the Bush Administration.
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“Like all other contracting states to the UN convention against torture, the US has committed to conduct criminal investigations of torture and to bring all persons to court against whom there is sound evidence,” Manfred Nowak, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on torture, told Austrian weekly paper Der Standard.

“They are party to the convention and the convention is very, very clear,” Nowak told the paper. “The fact that you carried out an order doesn’t relieve you of your responsibility.”

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Obama and Spain Condone Torture!

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Johnathan Turley in response to a question by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow gives us an insight as to why this prosecution is so desperately needed and hints at the reason Obama is avoiding it:

... what is really disturbing is that … he’s equating the enforcement of federal laws, that he took an oath to enforce … with an act of retribution in some sort of hissy fit or blame game.”

“It’s not retribution to enforce criminal laws,” insisted Turley. “What it is is obstruction to prevent that enforcement — and that is exactly what he’s done thus far. He’s trying to lay the groundwork to look principled when he’s doing an utterly unprincipled thing.”

“There aren’t any ‘convenient’ or inconvenient times to investigate war crimes,” Turley emphasized. “You don’t have a choice. … You have an obligation to do it.”

Turley believes that Obama is backing off from any investigation of war crimes “because an investigation will go directly to the doorstep of President Bush … and there’s not going to be a lot of defenses that could be raised for ordering a torture program.”

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Spain’s torture probe ‘all but doomed’

Update: 12:45 PM PDT. At least the Spanish judge is trying to keep the indictments on track!

Government attorneys will defend CIA officials who participated in harsh interrogations



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I don't care how mad I am at him for dissing Rev Wright... I know about the scene with the kids in Portland and I have friends who drove down from Seattle in their excitement... so... I'm going to have to vote for him. I can't not vote for him when the kids are on fire like this. He's got graffiti artists out stumping for him fer fucksakes.

There is no way on this earth that McWarmonger could get even half the votes Obama will. None. Anything more than half Obama's votes will unquestionably be election fraud.

Oh, oh, and he says he wants us to be nice to Clinton supporters....

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THOSE TWO ARE LAUNCHING "DISHONEST, DIVISIVE" ATTACKS.
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Ya think?

But he does do it rather elegantly:


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Little Roger Waters Break

I Must Be Sick or Something

This dumb clip gets me all choked up....