Chaos besets 9/11 court hearing

I hadn't heard anthrax thrown in with Cheney's name yet. As for these 'hearings,' I can't remember the name of the military prosecutor who quit in disgust last year. I'd like to see it all turned (the tables).

Cheney linked to anthrax attacks, torture, domestic spying, and giving Dick a bad name.
http://trueslant.com/laurieessig/200...rrest-him-now/

In another piece of evidence that justice is alive and well in the state of Vermont even as it was put on hold for eight years under the Cheney-Bush regime, Senator Patrick Leahy’s calling for a Truth Commission to investigate whether or not crimes were committed by the likes of Cheney.

Leahy has been such a thorn in Cheney’s side, trying to investigate the Haliburton war profiteering, trying to stop the Patriot Act from being rammed through Congress, that Cheney once famously told him to **** off. But was Cheney also trying to scare Leahy into silence with Anthrax? There was a Daily Kos article last month putting together some of the evidence that Leahy may have been singled out for the Anthrax attacks that hit the nation during all this, attacks that eerily targeted Democrats who opposed what the Bushies were doing in the name of security.

Originally Posted by no caste

I can't remember the name of the military prosecutor who quit in disgust last year.

"Vandeveld is the seventh military prosecutor to resign [LAT report] from his post at Guantanamo. The committee also heard testimony from Deborah Pearlstein ..."

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Military commissions system 'broken': former Guantanamo prosecutor
Andrew Morgan at 11:21 AM ET
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchas...tem-broken.php


[JURIST] A former prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] told the House Judiciary Committee [official website] Wednesday that the military commission [JURIST news archive] system used to try detained enemy combatants is "broken beyond repair." In testimony [prepared remarks, PDF] at a hearing [materials] before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, US Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps [official website], said that although he was a "true believer" when he was detailed to the detention facility, he had come to believe that the commissions undermined "the fundamental values ... upon which this great country was founded." Asked by the subcommittee to address the legal issues surrounding the continuance of the military commission system...
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Despite this, it looks like it's all status crooked quo.

[Humble Janitor]

Originally Posted by no caste

I hadn't heard anthrax thrown in with Cheney's name yet. As for these 'hearings,' I can't remember the name of the military prosecutor who quit in disgust last year. I'd like to see it all turned (the tables).

Cheney linked to anthrax attacks, torture, domestic spying, and giving Dick a bad name.
http://trueslant.com/laurieessig/200...rrest-him-now/

In another piece of evidence that justice is alive and well in the state of Vermont even as it was put on hold for eight years under the Cheney-Bush regime, Senator Patrick Leahy’s calling for a Truth Commission to investigate whether or not crimes were committed by the likes of Cheney.

Leahy has been such a thorn in Cheney’s side, trying to investigate the Haliburton war profiteering, trying to stop the Patriot Act from being rammed through Congress, that Cheney once famously told him to **** off. But was Cheney also trying to scare Leahy into silence with Anthrax? There was a Daily Kos article last month putting together some of the evidence that Leahy may have been singled out for the Anthrax attacks that hit the nation during all this, attacks that eerily targeted Democrats who opposed what the Bushies were doing in the name of security.

I can't believe that people are telling Pat to move on. I support the truth commission but I don't think that it'll go anywhere without the support of folks like Ron Paul and so forth.

Some people call Vermont a socialist paradise but in reality, this is also the state of the Green Mountain Boys and other freedom-loving folks.

Originally Posted by Humble Janitor

I can't believe that people are telling Pat to move on. I support the truth commission but I don't think that it'll go anywhere without the support of folks like Ron Paul and so forth.

Some people call Vermont a socialist paradise but in reality, this is also the state of the Green Mountain Boys and other freedom-loving folks.

Yeah. This whole sh**show is bigger than the stupid, little accusations of left, right, centre, off the edge, whatever.

I hope Pat Leahy stays in the game.