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Countdown Wednesday: Tortured Justice

Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:59 PM by Countdown
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America's Torture Scars: And virtually everything Mr. Obama must undo starting next Tuesday, President Bush did... in the name of 9/11. We had to shred the Constitution, for 9/11. We had to become torturers, for 9/11... to prevent another one... to ensure justice for those behind 9/11 itself. And tonight, in our fifth story, on the eve of Mr. Bush's last fevered attempt at legacy re-writing, tonight we know for sure not only that Mr. Bush's decision to torture merited that word -- we know it now from a Bush official... But we also know that it has denied this nation, the victims of 9/11, and their loved ones... the chance to see some justice done... for that awful day.

Exit Laughing:  In his news conference Monday -- the one where he at least copped to the word mistakes... and having made some.President Bush, again claimed -- even if jokingly -- that he has been "mis-underestimated" In our fourth story on the Countdown:  No joke, unfortunately, earlier tonight... when his Vice President, Dick Cheney, insisted that the Bush White House hasn't made any mistakes...Only "under-estimated things"No Mis.  Well, except for the entire premise.

ODDBALL: A doggie goes awii...and a car goes up.

Search for Justice:  Under the Bush White House it has become corrupt in a way not seen since the Attorney General brainstormed with Richard Nixon on how **not** to prosecute Watergate. With dozens of conservative ideologues placed in career positions -- jobs that will outlive the current administration... The sender of a racist e-mail, we learn tonight, not only still in the employ of the department, but now assigned to **another** racially-sensitive post. Our third story on the Countdown - what does President-Elect Obama **do** about the Department of Justice?

Worsties....see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Glenn Beck,  Larry Schweikart and Senator James Inhoff

The Lion's Den: Talking with, not at the loyal opposition is one thing...  And President-elect Barack Obama has already met with Republican and Democratic lawmakers...dwarfing President Bush's actual acts (not his self-proclaimed status as) a "uniter."But now, in our number one story on the Countdown... there is this. A move that might be described as pre-emptively charming...  The President-elect, literally, walking into a den of conservative pundits... who have often framed him as, the enemy.

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the significance of the statement that no one act was or may have been torture but that cumulatively they amount to torture is that there may be no legal culpability for the acts if they individually are not torture.

Ira Newlander, Los Angeles, CA (Sent Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:12 PM)

Here's a great quote from a book called "The Judgment of the Nations" by Christopher Dawson: "As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."

Susan, Midland, MI (Sent Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:21 PM)

Everyone wants to know where the bailout money went, maybe they should start looking into Bush and Cheney's bank accounts.  Seems funny that everything is hush hush.  Bush did make a remark not too long ago that he would like to build up his capital after leaving office.  

JoAnn, Moundsville, WV (Sent Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:01 AM)

Great job Eric Holder, say you made a mistake and then deny te report is correct. HMMm, didn't know who Marc Rich was ?? Can you say perjury? Stay on him, get rid of this hack. And Sen Leahy, you want to know what torture is? Listening to your bs!

Fred, Manhatten (Sent Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:50 PM)

I nominate Fred Barnes for worst person in the world as a response to story 5,4,3 and 2 for his article on Bush's top ten achievments.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/986rockt.asp

Ed Chicago IL (Sent Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:28 PM)

I am torn.  It's almost impossible to believe that the time duration for particular interrogation "methods" would not have been included in the "rules".  And yet . . . these people are so oblivious that I have no trouble believing they would commit such an imbecility.

Cherine Eugene, Oregon (Sent Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:58 PM)

Question for Mr, Tice tonight..

Do you believe that Obama and Eric Holder will support Chief U.S.District Judge Vaughan Walker (CA) in allowing secret documents about warrantless wiretapping to be revealed?

nancy allen brooksville, maine (Sent Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:53 PM)



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