07-02-2009, 07:53 AM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:Leon Panetta: “I’ve expressed the opinion that I believe that waterboarding is torture and that it’s wrong. More importantly, the President has expressed the same opinion. Having said that, I also believe, as the President has indicated, that those individuals who operated pursuant to a legal opinion that indicated that that was proper and legal ought not to be prosecuted or investigated.”
So, all They need is for a high-ranking government law officer to declare, in a legal opinion which can be kept secret on grounds of National Security, that Torture x or y or z is proper and legal, and Their operatives have a Get Out Of Jail card.... Forever and ever... Amen....
Hey, Jan, NOT JUST waterboarding, but whatever clandestine 'legal' opinion they invent for absolutely anything...i.e. the way the country has been run since the Second World War to today and, it seems, through Obama - continuity is just another word for 'change'. (Ya see, I have this secret legal opinion that states that.) Ha!:thefinger: