it is chiefly "civil libertarians" that are intent on prosecution of the Bush regime and its cadre of Yoo, Gonzalez, Bybee and other lawyers, sycophants and supplicants.

I happen to be a thinking authoritarian, a thoughtful conservative, and I don't need to be called a civil libertarian. In fact, that lines me up with extremists at ACLU and MoveOn, and social progressives at Medecins Sans Frontieres and Human Rights Watch.

She insults me!

The only reason Obama is slow-walking the legal process is because he doesn't want to drive the minority absolutely crazy. He's triangulating!!

Obama has problems to deal with, he has an agenda, and others can carry that water for him far better than partisan politicians and the putative head of the Democratic Party. In fact, the boil can be lanced only after it has flourished a bit or the infection simply returns.

But, then, what do I expect from the garbage beltway villager tabloid, WaPO. Poor Ruth. She has to whore out her prose for the echo chamber.

I'll line up with Conservatives on these matters for a change.

and replaced it with the witless hubris of Hiatt and his ilk.

Obama could restore it, but he doesn't want to be attacked from the right. (Needless to say, he IS being attacked from the right, but he doesn't see it that way.)

expose themselves.

Like obscene flashers, they whip open their neoconservative raincoats and proudly decorate any diplomatic process by simply urinating on it. That's the best they can do.

It's old hat Chicago School, and I think Obama is onto them. This will take a bit more time. One or two more exhibitions of their inane discharge should do it. Despicable.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/galloway/story/63372.html

....says pretty much the same thing as the DFH crowd:

...his [Obama's] new attorney general, Eric Holder, and our representatives on Capitol Hill must pursue the truth with great vigor and without fear or favor. Those who took this proud nation to the brink of dictatorship must answer for that, and if they violated our Constitution, our laws and international law, then they must be brought to justice.

We cannot be the shining city on the hill if our gleaming buildings have dungeons and torture chambers in their basements. We cannot be a beacon of hope in a chaotic world if our hands are bloody and our ears still ring with the screams of helpless prisoners.

It’s time to get to work cleaning up those dark corners in the White House and the Justice Department and all the other departments that had a hand in George W. Bush’s excellent adventure.

SCOTUS DID vacate the lower court...It said specifically that the President did NOT have the legal authority to detain citizens indefinitely.

SCOTUS DID vacate the lower court...It said specifically that the President did NOT have the legal authority to detain citizens indefinitely.

The answer to the procedural problem is simple: arrest for preventive detention, prompt indictment and trial in open courts, withholding top secret government information for judges.

There really is no other way, unless prosecutors are willing to offer arrestees deportation to any nation that will have them, and strip them of U.S. citizenship.

I swear she couldn't read the news of CIA video destruction without gagging - gawd!

Good little actress, she. (and yes, I said it that way to piss off her and her father.)

We need a hundred well-connected individuals haranguing Harry Reid 'round the clock - while we interrupt his sleep with a thousand pizza deliveries.

Jenny S.Martinez in WaPo from a while back

[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601771.html]

offers a plain-language analysis of the breathtaking depths of ...(tada!) ....Obama's Holder DoJ, to date:

The Bush administration has claimed since Sept. 11 that the federal courts cannot be trusted with terrorism matters. It has argued that we should scrap our centuries-old constitutional protections and replace our system of checks and balances with one awarding the executive complete discretion to lock up whomever he wants, for however long he deems appropriate. The Founders rejected that kind of arbitrary and oppressive power. And the federal court in Florida has shown how weak the administration's case for abandoning the Constitution really is.

Will Holder relent in al-Harramain? The jury is in: NO, HE WILL NOT!

But if the President refuses to disclose evidence in it, that may be illegal....that is called

Obstruction of Justice.

I have faith that a Constitutional scholar like Obama, who has taught law, and knows history and politics very well, will move these issues to the stark light of day.

There was no way Holder could oust the entire corps of Dead-Enders. And there are many tactical advantages to knowing the sources of corrupt legal opinion within one's agency.

Watch, keep the faith, and look at the policies and procedures that are being deployed, i.e., Gitmo to close; al-Marri to proceed through the courts.

It's going to take a while. Above all, read the headlines and watch them raise the stench to a higher level.

I do not think I am being paranoid when I suggest that slow-walking this stuff after 8 long years of BushCo corruption is the safer way to discover who Obama's enemies are within the bureaucracy.