The spooks must be getting nervous if they had to roll out seven former CIA directors to ask President Obama to commit a blatantly illegal act: intervening to quash the Justice Department murder investigation against some of their colleagues.
As anyone who remembers Watergate and the Saturday Night Massacre knows, presidents cannot simply reach over to DoJ and interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation. Nixon even got in trouble for casually referring to Charles Manson as guilty before his trial was over. Of course, that was three decades ago when flushing our legal system and its civil protections down the toilet was considered a serious matter.
It’s amazing that this open call for the undermining of the criminal justice system by gross abuse of executive authority has gone almost unnoticed, including by the wackosphere that spent all summer hopping up and down about Obama as the nazi-fascist fifth column ready to take away their assault rifles. You’d think people worried that the government was about to set up concentration camps and slaughter them in their beds would have something to say about the secret services asking for carte blanche to commit murder.
And despite the erroneous headlines about prosecutions of ‘torture’ techniques, the only investigations Holder has allowed to go forward concern cases of Afghan detainees being beaten to death. Even John Yoo’s notorious memos authorizing the CIA and its many contract spooks to let loose did not turn them into double-0s with the right to kill.
Now, the CIA chiefs are insisting that their minions shouldn’t be held accountable even when the victim interrupts the investigation by succumbing. That defense would go far in a normal criminal courtroom—‘Oh yes, Your Honor, I beat the guy with a baseball bat. But I didn’t mean to kill him. I wanted him to stay alive so I could torture him so more’. ‘Oh, okay, in that case it’s not really murder, you’re free to go’.
But who cares about piss-ant technicalities when Our Nation’s Security is at stake? It’s funny how laws and legalities go out the window in the war-making sphere while the same people get all red in the face about ‘illegal aliens’ coming to mow their lawns. It’s not LEGAL for them to do that, say the Fox-oids and Dobbs-ites, neck-veins popping. How dare they disrespect our LAWS??
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