Let me begin this with a Hat-Tip to Joanne Dixon. Even though I’m not using the article she sent me, she’s been hoping I’d cover this story, involving her Senator, for a while now. For me, it goes much further back. I was calling for the criminal prosecution of Republican war criminals, during Texas Torquemada’s first term, long before Obama took office. Anyone who has followed me long term knows that this has been an ongoing issue for me. One of my pet peeves about the Obama administration has been their failure to pursue this. Therefore, I feel quite angry that they are now acting to protect Republican war criminals. I support the Udall plan.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough met with Senate Democrats Thursday to provide a briefing on President Obama’s immigration plans. But once the immigration talk was over, the meeting reportedly devolved into chaos as an angry lawmaker confronted McDonough over the White House’s foot-dragging and obstruction over releasing the committee’s report on CIA torture.
"It was a vigorous, vigorous and open debate — one of the best and most thorough discussions I’ve been a part of while here," said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.).
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who served as intelligence committee chair before Feinstein, was furious after the meeting, and accused the administration of deliberately stalling the report.
“It’s being slow-walked to death. They’re doing everything they can not to release it," Rockefeller told HuffPost.
"It makes a lot of people who did really bad things look really bad, which is the only way not to repeat those mistakes in the future," he continued. "The public has to know about it. They don’t want the public to know about it."
As negotiations continue, Rockefeller said Democrats were thinking creatively about how to resolve the dispute. "We have ideas," he said, adding that reading the report’s executive summary into the record on the Senate floor would probably meet with only limited success. "The question would be how much you could read before they grabbed you and hauled you off."
A question following that is who exactly is going to grab a lawmaker and haul him or her off? A senator on the floor of the chamber is protected by the Constitution. For a sitting senator, the consequences could be severe—loss of committee assignments, of security clearance to have access to classified materials, or even expulsion from Congress. But for an outgoing senator, like Mark Udall, there would be no ramifications… [emphasis added]
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Go for it, Udall! We may not realize the hope expressed in the top graphic, but at the very least, I hope it may spur an international response so intense that such heinous criminals as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, Tenet, Feith, Yoo and many more will be unable to set foot outside the US without a permanent trip to The Hague, and they will not ne able to brag about it, as they now do, without prompting sufficient outrage, here in the US, to shame them into silence.
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I'm with you.
Go for it, Sen. Udall! These criminals must be brought to justice.
I agree and always have about these treasonous killers and have for years waved my hand high in the air for the honor of pulling the trip rope on them.
I belive it when it happens if Udall/Dims actually really rock da boat. Udall getting ass kicked by a zygote boy. Not proud of my state ay all !!
Nobody gave a shit before the invasion and when the Downing Street Memo was released they gave even less than a shit.
Now for the most part history has been rewritten.
Here is an old friend who will remember me colling for justice even before Bush's second term.
Thanks, TC. The war criminals have been on my radar almost as long as they have been on yours. I am crushed that Mark was defeated, but it gives him and us a rare opportunity to make lemonade from lemons. Sure, Jay Rockefeller might possibly be able to do it … but my secret dream is, since Colorado is so ornery, it could give Mark a foothold from which to primary Bennett. And even if that is impossible, it would be a legacy worthy of the Udall family, who in my opinion are up there with the Roosevelts and do not get enough credit. There, I assume that's enough personal opinion for one day.
thanks, Joanne and Tom, the truth needs to be heard.
I`m with you all on this one . . . names need to be exposed, especially Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice etc etc and things have to change. I agree that Sen Mark Udall seems to be the man at this point, but I am wondering, could he go to prison for such action? Don`t get me wrong, I would love to see Bush et al in prison garb, in a 6` by 8` cell with lights on all the time, no privacy, and lousy food. On the other hand, I wonder if Mad Vlad, the Russian Republican, would give them sanctuary?
Quick question.
Is that top picture of Baby Bush au naturel?
YES!
I wish!
It is time for these Chicken Hawk, Chicken $hits to face justice.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and a host of many others should all be taken to the Hague and/or the Spanish Courts to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. I am in agreement that Senator Mark Udall should “Go For It”! Yes, it is true that some members of the bushy administration are subject to arrest if they step into certain countries.
Here is a petition: http://www.care2.com/news/member/774550352/3824717
There have been many other petitions to sign. Just check your e mail boxes.
Thanks, Jim. I signed. This is the second petition I have signed for this to happen. I hope he does go for it.
Thanks Jim. Signed.
It made me angry when Baby Bush and Cheney both came to Canada for speaking engagements. Under the terms of the UN Convention on Torture, of which Canada is a signatory, PM Stephen Harper, as I understand, had a legal obligation to arrest these two cretins but did not. Maybe he should join them in The Hague.
Signed. Thanks, Jim!
I signed Jim's petition and also signed one last night from a different source. Why is the administration protecting that gang of outlaws? They almost destroyed our country while in office, desecrated the values this country has always stood for, and committed out right crimes with no punishment. Makes no sense to me.
. . . and their disciples, the Republicanus/Teabaggers are still at it! Thugs all!
Thanks all. Way late. Overslept.
Face it, these criminals will never be tried in a court of law. But at least the full report, unredacted can be released so we know what they instigated and they can be tried in the court of public opinion. Unfortunately a large pergentage of the American public will applaud there crime as necessary. That's how morally bankrupt we've become.