I just think this whole story is wrong.

If you want to hold Eric Schneiderman responsible, thanks OK. But hold him responsible for what he actually did:

foreclosure settlement
Yes, there was a settlement, but the only charges covered by it were robo-signing, not the general securities fraud. The original DOJ settlement terms covered EVERYTHING, now and in the future. So the narrowing of the terms is one thing he achieved.

NY AG sues banks

NY foreclosure lawsuit

Another thing he did is put the banks on notice, the free ride of non-prosecution under the Holder led DOJ was no longer going to happen.

Credit the other AG’s, like Beau Biden with this too.

Thanks for the memories – especially the ones no one wants to remember.

“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good people to do nothing.”

We know the date of evil winning has been pushed back by your presence.

I follow where you lead.

[Under settled law, discarded garbage placed on the side of the street for pickup does not fall within any recognized privacy interest protected by the Fourth Amendment. See California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35, 40-42 (1988); United States v. Kramer, 711 F.2d 789, 792 (7th Cir. 1983); United States v. Crowell, 586 F.2d 1020, 1025 (4th Cir. 1978). When someone puts trash out for collection, he knows someone else (usually a total stranger) will be taking the garbage away — hopefully never to be seen again. An individual places "refuse at the curb for the express purpose of conveying it to a third party, the trash collector," who might himself sort "through [the] trash or [permit] others, such as the police, to do so.” Greenwood, 486 U.S. at 40. When left by the side of the road, trash becomes “readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops, and other members of the public.”]
Commonwealth v. Bryant, Record No. 2715-04-1 (VA 5/3/2005) (Va, 2005)

Nothing to see here. Law enforcement doing what law enforcement does – and has done- for decades.

Agreed. And any of our courts that got uppity as well.

Statute of limitations does not apply to capital crimes.

That was in an Amicus brief for granting cert. You can expect it is explicitely rejected.

There is a much more succinct description of substituting documents ordered by a court.

It is called fraud.

Prosecute them, and throw in a contempt charge to boot.

I have a better idea than a commission. Let’s try the Torture 13 in open court for conspiracy to commit torture and torture to death of the 25 detainees who died that way. Let them each enjoy being on death row for a while.

Put down a line so bright that not even malignant narcissists like Donald Trump will risk it, ever again.

Several scientists have documented a split between democrats (thinking) and republicans (feeling). We get upset because our rational arguments get rejected. They get upset because our way of doing things feels wrong.

No one will ever win a republican primary because they are the more rational of the two candidates. No one will win a democratic primary by being a panderer like Donald Trump.

The good news is we made them feel like pussies. Hurts their masculinity. Doesn’t feel right at all. Just not right at all.

Complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1361, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983

Maybe Bob, they are going to be prosecuted. Soon.

“Fashad Mohamed is an Iraqi who died in custody on April 5, 2004.He is alleged to have been captured, and beaten by SEAL team 7, the same SEAL team accused of beating another Iraqi who later died shortly thereafter. He was hooded, sleep deprived, and soaked with water. According to the published reports he was finally allowed to sleep he didn’t wake up.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashad_Mohamed “The autopsy findings in this 27-year-old man seem insufficient to explain his death. The fact that they seem to have found pulmonary edema, water in the lungs, is very unusual in a man of this age without heart disease. The available information is insufficient to explain his death. A full investigation report that describes the circumstances preceding his death and the manner in which the body was found shortly before any attempt at resuscitation is needed to explain the cause of death and to rule out a homicide which seems more likely than not in a 27-year-old man who suddenly died in captivity. – Dr. Steven Miles, Professor and Bioethicist, University of Minnesota Medical School on autopsy of Fashad Mohamed, died in U.S. custody, April 5, 2004”
http://www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/06221-etn-hrf-dic-rep-web.pdf @ pg 21.

They have come out of their caves because public opinion is their final shield against prosecution.

Sorry, MadDog my friend. No one has found them guilty of anything just yet.

The problem is, the scent of blood is in the water.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/06/17/41388/if-the-detainee-dies-youre-doing.html
“If the detainee dies, you are doing it wrong.”

Capital crimes. Capital punishment. Coming soon, to a torture apologist near you.

No one. The courts have no troops, no JSOC.

All we have left is their clear, unambiguous moral authority.

From a court, which when lied to BY POLICY, does nothing. No sanctions, whatsoever.

Not likely to be protecting your rights or anyone elses anytime soon.

Unfortunately, it is worse than that. The official DOJ position is that they are entitled to lie to the court whenever state secrets are at issue in a case. Think about that. Al-Haramain, Jeppessen, Padilla – every case that touches state secrets the DOJ has lied to the courts BY POLICY.

Via still unclear means, CIA learns Abu Ahmed’s real name

With more agents in the field, the C.I.A. finally got the courier’s family name. With that, they turned to one of their greatest investigative tools — the National Security Agency began intercepting telephone calls and e-mail messages between the man’s family and anyone inside Pakistan. From there they got his full name.

BTD’s answer http://www.talkleft.com/story/2011/5/3/95330/16956 via NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03intel.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

But eventually the waterboarders will have to deal with the fact that the “best” information came after the waterboarding stopped.

It’s worse than that, papau. Waterboarding doesn’t get you the truth, it gets only the lies necessary to get the torture to stop. It also leaves the prisoner more resistant to actual interrogation. This delayed getting the answers we needed by YEARS. All those people who died – everyone who lost a favored body part – all because some republicans thought they were above the law. It’s not the “best” information, papau. It is the only information that mattered in the real world.

Nice opinion from court saying FBI/DOJ LIED TO IT –

http://www.mainjustice.com/files/2011/04/Cormac-Carney-Order.pdf

All to find some “islamofascists” – or evidence they exist – unicorns too…

They could. But leaving out that charge gives them another “bite at the apple”. As long as some significant element of the charge (such as occurring in a different venue) exists, it isn’t double jeopardy. Have seen people prosecuted on State charges, then Federal charges that way.

There is another way to look at this move. The Holder DOJ may be aware that the clock is running out on the use of torture derived evidence (about all they have against KSM) and Super Secret Top Secret Gamma Guppy Extra Secret Noforn Noporn evidence.

I think you are right about Katyal and Goldsmith. Happen to be reading Goldsmith’s “The Terror Presidency” tonight.

Brave and important… a book that anyone concerned about civil liberties in the war on terror must read. – Neal Katyal

Frankly, Goldsmith and Katyal wouldn’t known a civil liberty from a question on a bar exam.