Bush Lawyers Cleared in Torture Memo Probe

In a stunning victory that exonerates the Bush Administration’s use of waterboarding that helped keep the nation safe since the 911 attacks, Newsweek reports that Bush lawyers who were targeted by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama will be cleared of any wrong doing.

“Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations.”

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This hits keep on coming for the House of O!

This probe should never have happened in the first place and if anyone deserves to be investigated, its President Obama himself for treating terrorists like the common criminal who robbed the liquor store last week.

When will that probe begin?

UPDATE: As of yet not many News outlets are running with this story. Uhmm, I wonder why. But, I wanted to get the reactions of Liberals. So below are the first 20 reactions on the Lib site Think Progress. Some of them are quite funny.


1.
WTF? This is down right depressing. I don’t think the Bush Administration will ever be brought to Justice. All the crimes, all the lies and all the deaths they are responsible for and they will walk away. I not only need a beer, I’m getting a shot of rum.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:25 pm

2.StratRat says:

Sadly, not unexpected. Remember, we mustn’t ‘look back’. Obama thinks it would be rude to do so…
January 30th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

3.Bobwurst says:

Is Margolis a holdover from the bush years?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

4.Bobwurst says:

Here’s the answer to my question:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27300
January 30th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

5.drhunt says:
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.

6.Bobwurst says:

drhunt says:
“Good torture”?!?!?!??!
Your logic is a shock to rational minds everywhere. Please crawl back under your rock.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:31 pm

7.Badger says:

From the Emptywheel link:
Margolis is, however, also tied to the DOJ and its culture for over forty years, not to mention his service in upper management as Associate Attorney General during the Bush Administration when the overt acts of torture and justification by Margolis’ contemporaries and friends were committed.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

8.StratRat says:

We owe them a debt of gratitude.
We murdered many such ‘grateful’ detainees, didn’t we? Men we will never know if they were innocent or guilty. AmeriKKKa has a new fan in drhunt.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

9.Bozo The Neoclown says:

“Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective. It need not be illegal to do this”
so, shitstain, i suppose you’re also alright with american personel being tortured. right, scumbag?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

10.Ape-Man says:

The Republican is an immature, socially inept individual. We might as well put children in charge of representing us.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:33 pm

11. Bozo The Neoclown says:

remind me again why john yoo hasn’t been disbarred?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

12.StratRat says:

Ape-Man says:
The Republican is an immature, socially inept individual. We might as well put children in charge of representing us.
Even children know better than to torture innocent men. Before Bush, we honored our treaty obligations. Now all of our fighting folks will be subject to the same torture we inflicted on others.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:37 pm

13.Badger says:

drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious (sic) in order to be effective.
What the hell does that mean/???
Torture sure shocked the minds of impressionable Muslim youth, by turning them into avenging terrorists.
The Military readily acknowleges that all hell broke loose in Iraq after the News of Abu Ghraib hit the streets.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

14.P.D. says:

Bozo@11, Yeah really. And the SOB writes a opinion column in the Philly Inquierer too. So does good ole Ricky (Man on dog) Santorum. I think I’ll throw up now.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

15.paleolib says:

Margolis is needed on urgent business in Lubbock, TX or some other garden spot. Let’s bring some accountability back to some aspect of the federal government.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

16.StratRat says:

Bozo The Neoclown says:
remind me again why john yoo hasn’t been disbarred?
Because the America you and I read about in school is no longer the country it once was. It was once a proud and honorable country. The likes of Reagan, Bush, Cheney, Fox news destroyed what could have been a wonderful place to live.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

17. Pilotshark Sponsored by Beoing says:

drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective. It need not be illegal to do this.
So i know now that you could not way be a real doctor by that statement.
and which you think we should do to O’Keeffe and gang? water board or shock?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

18.just the bleepn facts says:

drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective.
You little nazi limpd*cks think there is “good torture”? And you wonder why people call for you to be put in mental hospitals?
drhunt says:

It need not be illegal to do this.
Because only the criminally insane believe this…
drhunt says:
Yoo and Bybee have constructed legal opinions that will stand the test of time.
Only if we become the fascist state you teabaggers are drooling for. I’m not banking on it, neither should you whackjob.
drhunt says:
They define the tools to be used in intelligence gathering. We owe them a debt of gratitude.

LOL! Torture has nothing to do with intelligence gathering, it’s about limpd*ck p*ssies like you needing to feel “powerful” in the face of being made to feel impotent. It’s nothing more than your psychotic insecurity and lunacy that drives it. We owe them a debt of gratitude for exposing what radical extremist lunatics make up the right wing mainstream!
January 30th, 2010 at 5:41 pm

19.P.D. says:
Strat@16, Now China is kicking our as* with green energy. And because Bush’s policies banning stem cell research, other countries have advanced in medicine as well.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm

20.just the bleepn facts says:

Pilotshark Sponsored by Beoing says:
So i know now that you could not way be a real doctor by that statement.
That would Doctor in the same way that “doctor J” is a doctor! ;)
January 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Via Newsweek

Via Memeorandum

From The Last Tradition

PROSECUTING PATRIOTS

WITH the ugly sanctimony of those who never had to make hard decisions, the American left demands show trials of those who kept us safe after 9/11. Wrapping themselves in repugnant self-righteousness, the MoveOn.org set wants political prosecutions. Should President Obama acquiesce, he won't be furthering the rule of law, but dismantling it.

Show trials have long been popular with leftists. Those who don't conform to each jot of doctrine become "enemies of the people." From Stalin down to Putin, and from Mao to Castro, vengeance disguised as law has been a mega-hit.

Those on the left don't want justice. If they did, they'd be protesting the murderous torture prevalent in Iran, the Gaza Strip, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela and Russia. Instead, our leftists want us to show the leaders of those terror states more respect.

The left is out for revenge. It always is. Hatred of those who think differently is the left's unifying principle. Leftists don't need God, but they see devils everywhere.

When President-for-Life Hugo Chavez called President George W. Bush "el Diablo," our leftists agreed. Hatred of the last administration grew so irrational that any terrorist, no matter how monstrous, became no more than a victim of Bush-Cheney.

Now the left wants an Inquisition for heretics who failed to share its worldview. Men and women who, in their capacity as public servants, wrestled with difficult legal issues in the course of our battle with terrorists are now to be tried and shamed because the left disagreed with their legal opinions and actions. No matter that most Americans wouldn't view the methods of our interrogators as torture when applied to hardened terrorists (despite the media's ceaseless effort to convince us otherwise). No matter that foreign leaders championed by the left use vastly more brutal techniques.

No matter that interrogators differ on the utility of "harsh" methods or that the information gleaned indisputably saved American lives. No matter that our system of government functioned as it was designed to.

The left just didn't like the results the system produced. Law has nothing to do with this cry for vengeance. This is purely about political differences. During the Bush administration, leftists warned repeatedly that actions they didn't like put our country on a "slippery slope." Well, once we initiate show trials of government officials who did their best to protect us, we'll have skipped the slippery slope and leapt to the bottom.

If Obama agrees to any form of show trial, he and his own team will live to regret it. His party won't always be in power, and he'll have set a hideous, un-American precedent.

If the Obama administration fails to keep us safe and our citizens are attacked at home or abroad, shall we then prosecute those who dismantled our safeguards and gutted our intelligence effort?

As countless leftists learned in the course of the 20th century, today's witness for the prosecution is tomorrow's enemy of the people.

The rule of law is paramount. When we pervert the law for political ends, we attack our deepest foundations. Where would such show trials stop? Will we try Supreme Court justices for issuing legal opinions with which a future administration disagrees?

There are plenty of genuine crimes worth prosecuting in Washington, DC. Corruption abounds. Not a few members of Congress -- from both parties -- should be in jail. But corruption isn't taken seriously. Politics are.

If the left gets its People's Court to destroy the lives of patriots who did their human, imperfect best to defend us (and who succeeded in that effort for seven years), we will do more damage to the United States than all the dictators our president longs to embrace could do together.

The left has nothing against torture. It just wants to choose the victims.

Meanwhile, that great bogeyman beloved of left-wing propagandists and Hollywood (sorry for being redundant), Sen. Joseph McCarthy, is grinning from ear to ear in hell: He's become the left's new role model.

Ralph Peters New York Post 4/23/09