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Published Letters: 1941
What now? Is there ANYBODY in Congress who cares? -- bamage
Your comment takes for granted that Congress is at all relevant anymore. They aren't. There are probably a few (very few from what I have seen) in congress who do care but as for the congress as a whole, well, they simply no longer matter really. For the most part they simply refuse to act on their oversight responsibilities and, when they do, their subpoenas are ignored and their investigations end up nowhere, resulting in nothing. Watch what happens when they get the torture planners together... nothing will happen and no one will be detained and charged. Congress is irrelevant and they have allowed themselves to become so. Just like we the people have.
While I'm sure you're a gangbusters prosecutor, I know that prosecutors are political creatures. In the litany of attempts to lay something criminal at Bush's doorstep, this is one of the lamest. It reeks of desperation. -- shooter242
Shooter - I can't believe I am doing this but I have a serious question for you. Namely, is it truly your belief that this president and his immediate underlings have not broken the law in any way, shape or form? Forget about the military analysts issue for a moment, not once have they broken the law? All of these myriad of scandals, the subsequent admissions and other evidence is, in your mind, simply sound and fury that signifies nothing? Is that truly what you believe? I would prefer you not do any equivocating... just a "yes, I believe he has broken the law during his time in office" or "no, I do not believe he has broken the law during his time in office" would be great. Thanks.
If Karl Rove could be shown to have been involved, unequivocally, and held accountable in a court of law, I think that would be a very important step...
Never going to happen. Who is going to do it? Harry Reid? Obama? GMAFB already. I am beginning to believe Shooter is correct. No laws have been broken by BushCo. If they had been, then people would have been prosecuted and jailed by now. We are a nation of laws after all, no? If we are, then there is nothing to see here because this is relatively small potatoes compared to other issues that have been thought to be against the law.
If we are not a nation of laws, then why do you all persist in kidding yourselves that you will see any justice through "the rule of law"? At what point do you stop wasting time chasing that shiny object?