Obama Keeps Prosecutions on the Table

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

Watch it aj, extreme puter wingnuts are next.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

Watch it aj, extreme puter wingnuts are next.

Your safe until he goes after numb nuts.

[natty bumppo 297]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

[Ban Hammer 13,360]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

Stevens sweet sixteen?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

Stevens sweet sixteen?

A bit too much cerveza explains the come on.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

Stevens sweet sixteen?

A bit too much cerveza explains the come on.

No, he likes little fat guys that say trick or treat in a special way.

Edited April 22, 2009 by ={Rogue}=

[natty bumppo 297]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

Stevens sweet sixteen?

A bit too much cerveza explains the come on.

No, he likes little fat guys that say trick or treat in a special way.

oh wait ... nah .. I can't say it here ...

there again ... he likes rapid fire

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

During a press availability Jordan's King Abdullah, President Obama fielded a couple of questions about possible sanctions against Bush administration officials who wrote torture memos. The president went a little further than Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs were prepared to go.

President Obama suggested today that it remained a possibility that the Justice Department might bring charges against officials of the Bush administration who devised harsh interrogation policies that some see as torture.

He also suggested that if there is any sort of investigation into these past policies and practices, he would be more inclined to support an independent commission outside the typical congressional hearing process. [...]

Calling the Bush-era memos providing legal justifications for enhanced interrogation methods "reflected us losing our moral bearings," the president said that he did not think it was "appropriate" to prosecute those CIA officers who "carried out some of these operations within the four corners of the legal opinions or guidance that had been provided by the White House."

But in clear change from language he and members of his administration have used in the past, the president said that "with respect to those who formulated those legal decisions, I would say that is going to be more of a decision for the Attorney General within the parameters of various laws and I don't want to prejudge that."

Obama added that he believes it would be "more sensible" if there were some kind of independent commission on this, "outside of the typical hearing" process.

The president reiterated his sense that "we should be looking forward and not backwards," but given that this was the first time Obama publicly expressed at least tacit support for a probe into the activities of high-ranking Bush administration officials, this can be seen as a step in the right direction.

Think Progress, which has video of the president's remarks this morning, added that Obama's comments seem to effectively put "the ball in Holder's court." And if the A.G. follows the vision he outlined during his confirmation hearings, Holder may conclude he has no choice but to pursue this matter.

Update: Here's a transcript of Obama's comments this morning.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

I'll believe it when I see it.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Obama is turning the US into a banana republic. This is the kind of sh!t junta leaders do to the regime they overthrew. I can't say what else I'm thinking.

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

Stevens sweet sixteen?

A bit too much cerveza explains the come on.

No, he likes little fat guys that say trick or treat in a special way.

oh wait ... nah .. I can't say it here ...

there again ... he likes rapid fire

Kinda the same as makin minimum wage at jiffy lube?

[natty bumppo 297]

Really? What's stopping you this time?

If she said what she was thinking, the secret service would whisk her extremist wingnut #### to diego garcia faster than you could say barza.....

sedition ... guns ... sex ...

must be a stephen thread

not yet until we have gays and illegals.

Stevens sweet sixteen?

A bit too much cerveza explains the come on.

No, he likes little fat guys that say trick or treat in a special way.

oh wait ... nah .. I can't say it here ...

there again ... he likes rapid fire

Kinda the same as makin minimum wage at jiffy lube?

isn't that takin a lube job?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

[ isn't that takin a lube job?

Its minimum wage of course hes happy.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

During a press availability Jordan's King Abdullah, President Obama fielded a couple of questions about possible sanctions against Bush administration officials who wrote torture memos. The president went a little further than Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs were prepared to go.

President Obama suggested today that it remained a possibility that the Justice Department might bring charges against officials of the Bush administration who devised harsh interrogation policies that some see as torture.

He also suggested that if there is any sort of investigation into these past policies and practices, he would be more inclined to support an independent commission outside the typical congressional hearing process. [...]

Calling the Bush-era memos providing legal justifications for enhanced interrogation methods "reflected us losing our moral bearings," the president said that he did not think it was "appropriate" to prosecute those CIA officers who "carried out some of these operations within the four corners of the legal opinions or guidance that had been provided by the White House."

But in clear change from language he and members of his administration have used in the past, the president said that "with respect to those who formulated those legal decisions, I would say that is going to be more of a decision for the Attorney General within the parameters of various laws and I don't want to prejudge that."

Obama added that he believes it would be "more sensible" if there were some kind of independent commission on this, "outside of the typical hearing" process.

The president reiterated his sense that "we should be looking forward and not backwards," but given that this was the first time Obama publicly expressed at least tacit support for a probe into the activities of high-ranking Bush administration officials, this can be seen as a step in the right direction.

Think Progress, which has video of the president's remarks this morning, added that Obama's comments seem to effectively put "the ball in Holder's court." And if the A.G. follows the vision he outlined during his confirmation hearings, Holder may conclude he has no choice but to pursue this matter.

Update: Here's a transcript of Obama's comments this morning.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

I'll believe it when I see it.

I swear I heard Obama say it wasnt about the past? But about looking forward to the future and making things oh so right?