Over at Crooks & Liars, Jamie blogged about Scarborough’s plucked-from-his-posterior positing that the FBI is out to "get" the CIA ’cause it’s all about the turf wars.
And I had this to say:
Spare me the spin, the hype, the hyperventilating, the pivoting, the posturing, the fingerpointing.
I want the truth. The whole truth. Nothing but the truth.
And, yeah, I can handle it.
And even as I was typing, in the background, MSNBC’s Tamron Hall was talking about Chee-knee’s allegedly microdictating [presidenting? deciderating?] when, who, and how much alleged terrorists should be tortured. Yes, I said tortured. It was torture. You and I both know it.
This story is now accelerating and the momentum’s growing so strong that it seems to me there’s only one solution, and that’s for Attorney General Holder to step forward and announce that there are enough questions raised of alleged criminal activities, and to stop the rush by some to make this appear just partisan fingerpointing, he is appointing a special prosecutor to investigate—thoroughly and professionally—the issues and the facts being alleged.
Patrick "no leaks" Fitzgerald would be fine with me.
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crossposted at Prairie Sun Rising



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Thanks, PS. I’d also be happy with a career nonpartisan prosecutor nobody has heard of but with a spotless record of adhering to the law. [Provided such a person exists in this world…]
I just got an email from Wexler pushing his call for a prosecutor. Momentum is clearly building. From Wexler’s email:
Leen’s diary today gives link to today’s Amy Goodman, http://www.democracynow.org
with guest John Sifton talking about the homicides which resulted from torture in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I posted a comment yesterday about there having been no mention during the Whitehouse-Feingold hearing about these homicides due to torture.
John Sifton states that the Al Jamadi homicide was referred to the DOJ for investigation and appropriate action but no action has ever been taken. Jamadi died 11/04/2004. Jim, do you think it would be productive for us to contact Whitehouse to send ‘a stern letter’ to DOJ for a report of their action/inaction/disposition of Jamadi’s case? (he was aka ‘the Ice Man’ or ‘Frosty’). Mark Swanner was the CIA interrogator with Jamadi. As of 2006 he was still an interrogator for CIA.
Also, in this same program Amy shows the clip of a detainee being waterboarded using a gallon jug of water, not a cup as Yoo’s grand memos stipulate.
Correction to my #2 !!
Per Wiki, Manadel al Jamadi was tortured to death 11/04/2003, not 2004. Here’s first paragraph at Wiki:
More Holder bullshit; the law says nothing about death being a necessary component for torture to be prosecuted.
Hey, Pups: Hurry over to EW’s for the best news you’ve ever heard (well, in the last 8 years). Cheney done himself in. Forgot to get the link, but here is title: Dick Cheney Out on a Limb Fourth Branch
I write this as a parent and father of 3 children….
if Obama has evidence of children being raped in front of bound and abused parents…
And he encourages the world to forgive and forget and move on…
In my eyes he is more evil than bush
Shame america for even having a debate whether the people who authorised this
shame shame shame