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No charges likely over interrogation memos: early report

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Posted by Steve White 2009-05-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Help me out here. How can you prosecute a lawyer for providing advice? The advice may be wrong, but is it a crime? Does that make lower court judges criminals when their rulings are overturned by the Supreme Court?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-05-06 08:16|| 2009-05-06 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 What DoJ investigators say or recommend is actually quite irrelevant. If Holder, Pelosi, and Barry think that additional political mileage can be made by pursuing this issue further, they'll do it.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-05-06 08:23|| 2009-05-06 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I've said it before and I'll say it again: What are you going to charge them with? Having opinions?

What crime was committed here?

Posted by Parabellum 2009-05-06 08:31|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-05-06 08:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Will this make Queen Nancy an accessory? After all she, and the rest of the Congressional leadershit knew about it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-05-06 08:32|| 2009-05-06 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 CF, that's why this inquisition won't go any further.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-05-06 08:50|| 2009-05-06 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Hope you are correct Deacon. After Darth Cheney played the "show me card" regarding end results, things appeared to quiet down a bit. No sense in highlighting a Bush Administration success story or let Darth Cheney rant during prime network news time now is there?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-05-06 09:00|| 2009-05-06 09:00|| Front Page Top

#7 I think the argument is along the lines of, a lawyer can't offer advice that is immoral, or illegal, or encourages others to bring the law. At least I think that's the argument being offered by the other side (who can tell given their hysteria?).

If you've been following the story, one of the accusations is that Yoo and Bybee pretty much asked the CIA what opinion they wanted and then wrote their briefs to match. I think it's nonsense, as both men (IMHO) have too much class and intelligence to do that.

If the disbarment argument goes forward, and it might, it'll be along these lines; the state bars will have to decide whether the lawyers offered immoral advice.

It's a clever way to shut good, hard-working, intelligent, patriotic people up. Who wants to work for government if your opponents will come back and destroy your career in response?

Posted by Steve White 2009-05-06 09:40|| 2009-05-06 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 and most State Bar organizations are controlled by progressives. That is why Kansas, a conservative state, has a progressive Supreme Court because the candidates are choosen by the State Bar Association.

Posted by bman 2009-05-06 11:07|| 2009-05-06 11:07|| Front Page Top

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