He also said that torture was worse than a sin, that it was a "mistake." He also stated that the President does not have the legal authority to order the use of torture.
It seems to me that 232 years after we declared independence from the last King George, it is a sad commentary on this nation that a nominee for attorney general would have to affirm the primacy of the rule of law, to state that it is improper to use the police power of the Federal government to prosecute and jail political opponents and to have to state that the use of torture is evil.
Shouldn't those things be assumed by now? Isn't having to ask those questions and give those answers the governmental equivalent of asking an applicant to college if he or she can recite the alphabet?
Isn't it a sad commentary on the state of our nation that these issues even have to be discussed and debated? And how sad is it that we actually have political leaders int his country who are pro-torture, pro-dictatorship and who think it is just peachy to throw political opponents into prison?
Not trying to be difficult... But, a "mistake" is worse than a "sin"?
ReplyDeleteThat's what he said.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it a sad commentary on the state of political affairs in this country that a man nominated by the most corrupt, criminal, and evilest man ever to sit in the Oval Office would give answers like this and the Congressimpletons would roll over and piss themselves with puppydog joy at hearing things they want so desperately to hear?
ReplyDeleteNote to the room temperature IQs in Congress: George Bu$h will NEVER nominate anyone with respect for the law to the DoJ and you are driving anther stake into the heart of the Constitution by believing any of them.
that photo is cosmic,
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