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Those Who Can't Be Nailed

CBS NEWS--After a review of the Senate Intelligence Committee's full report, the Justice Department is not expected to initiate any criminal charges against any CIA officers who participated in or authorized the Retention, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) program.

This means the Justice Department is standing by its earlier decision not to pursue criminal charges.

Its investigators also reviewed the Committee's full report and did not find any new information that they had not previously considered in reaching their determination.

The admissible evidence, the Justice Department concluded would not be sufficient to obtain and sustain convictions beyond a reasonable doubt.

He Who Can: If You Can't Nail Him For What You Don't Like, Nail Him For Something Else 

HUFFINGTON POST--The Justice Department is unlikely to prosecute anyone connected to the brutal torture techniques outlined in a Senate report released on Tuesday, but the one man already sitting in jail in connection with the CIA's interrogation program tried to draw public attention to it.

In an interview with ABC News in 2007, former CIA agent John Kiriakou was one of the first to acknowledge the existence of the CIA's torture program. Federal authorities brought criminal charges against him in 2008 for revealing the name of a covert agent to a reporter.

Kiriakou pleaded guilty to those charges in 2012 and is currently serving a 30-month federal prison sentence.

"I believe I was prosecuted not for what I did but for who I am: a CIA officer who said torture was wrong and ineffective and went against the grain," Kiriakou said last year.

Justice Served

BLOOMBERG VIEW--In short, then, the [DOJ's Torture Memos] worked: The Department of Justice gave the CIA a free pass to torture without being punished. The legal analysis may have been wrong or morally monstrous, and the CIA appears to have lied to the Department of Justice. But even discounting the political factors that make it unlikely a president would prosecute the CIA, the legal ground for proceeding would be very rocky.

Serious crimes were committed. They’re going to go unpunished.

WB7

Is this farcical outcome surprising to anyone?

Can we expect this outcome to deter acts of government sanctioned torture in the future? 

Shall we now hold our breath waiting for those morally solvent Europeans, Poland for example, to carry the ball of justice?

Nah! Better to put this sordid chapter in American history behind us ASAP...

 

 

 

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Thu, 12/11/2014 - 20:46 | 5542311 ShakaZulu
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Just ask yourself one question.  What's it going to take to balance that scale?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 05:57 | 5543390 rex-lacrymarum
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Well, there IS an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier that is crossing earth's orbit regularly...

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 15:20 | 5541119 pupdog1
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Luck that none of those CIA guys sold untaxed cigarettes while torturing suspects.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 14:44 | 5540948 Joebloinvestor
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Who gets tortured?

The prisoners who deserve to be incinerated, or the new victims when they release those fucks?

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 14:35 | 5540894 SAT 800
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"Everyone crying out for justice; just as soon as they get theirs--"  Lyric by Moses Allison.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 13:53 | 5540751 dexter_morgan
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Serious financial crimes take place daily and go unpunished. SOSDD

But selling loosies can get you dead.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 13:22 | 5540660 wisefool
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This is what you get when you pay your taxes. Two (2) contractors recieved 80 Million dollars, because even with 2+ Trillion spent on the war on terror, and collected by the IRS for many generations to come, they still had to outsource this particular bunch of torture to get "results." But atleast for now we can feel we got our moneys worth since they decimated the 2000 member strong al queada organization who used boxcutters to defeat the most sophsiticated air defense aparatus in the history of mankind.

Accountability, .gov has it!

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 15:25 | 5541132 TheGreatRecovery
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I wonder whether the reason the CIA paid the two contractors $80-million was that eveyone at top of the CIA realized that this was certain to come back nastily, and wanted to be able to say, "but I knew NUH-THING."  Likewise their assigning an untrained junior CIA agent to run their torture prison: "We hereby promote you to the office of Vice-President in Charge of Going to Jail".

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 15:35 | 5541190 wisefool
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I can't remember who said it, but there is something to effect that the corporate veil is most important technological invention humans have dreamed up so far. .gov just "leverages" what the "private" sector dreams up.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 13:18 | 5540641 ebworthen
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What, Nuremberg is not available?

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 14:35 | 5540910 SAT 800
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It's a historical monument and museum; to make sure this doesn't happen again. LOL.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:34 | 5540472 the grateful un...
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DOJ is too busy in Ferguson and NYC doing civil rights prosecutions

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:26 | 5540458 flyingpigg
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We tortured some folks in orange pyama's

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:06 | 5540399 Kilgore Trout
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Doe-eyed Hitler pulling on my heart strings.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:40 | 5540513 the grateful un...
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right out of Cartman's Woodland Critters Christmas

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:22 | 5540442 Cruel Aid
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lol

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 11:59 | 5540379 Reaper
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Justice is a fantasy that the governed crave. Your day in court is never about justice, it's about nourishing their hustle. After you stop hoping the gods will punish evil, you go on to hoping government courts will punish evil. All is delusion. Lawyers, judges, prosecutors and police are a for profit industry.

Themis is a statue, not a reality.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:36 | 5540492 the grateful un...
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justice is a force of nature, man can tame that force, but when he fails the force is more sublime, such as the French Revolution, and heads roll, any heads, your head, my head, makes no difference. when weak men cannot use justice then justice will use them

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 11:48 | 5540338 Fix It Again Timmy
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Excellent portrayals - Justice is DEFUNCT.....

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 11:35 | 5540301 BeagleOne
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Excellent work.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 11:33 | 5540295 bwh1214
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Someone needs to tell this guy he's not very good at photoshop. It's amazing what some people can do, but he's not one of them.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 14:37 | 5540916 SAT 800
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You're not either; butt-wipe.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:31 | 5540473 Demologos
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Was that Shit Captain?  If you can do better, do it and impress us.  Otherwise STFU!

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:30 | 5540469 detached.amusement
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what, you like the movies better than the books?  open your mind a bit, asshat

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 11:59 | 5540378 williambanzai7
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Well, I seem to do ok on Freaking News as well. Folks there know something about Photochopping.

Seem to do ok on Flickr as well.

But so what, why don't you show us how short your PS dick is Captain Crunch.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:04 | 5540397 varnelius
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Fuck that guy.

Someone doesn't apparently see the humor in what you do WB7.

I'd bet he collects a .gov paycheck.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 12:08 | 5540406 williambanzai7
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A clown like that needs pretty pictures. If that is what he needs he should just ask and I will send him over to Photoshop LaLaland. It's not too hard to find.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 13:51 | 5540750 YHC-FTSE
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One of my favourite modern artists of all time is Banksy. I'd say you're on a par with his skills on contemporary political commentary through the medium of art to provoke thought and humour at the same time. I rather liked his early work where humour was entirely missing and replaced by horror - like the juxtaposition of the vietamese girl naked and burnt by napalm screaming in terror holding hands with Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse. I don't think you can get a more powerful image about the US at war than that picture.

I'd say don't hold back for your audience. Just let it rip and see what happens. IMO you're certainly talented enough to be one of the best.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 09:49 | 5539922 Thom_333
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That´s how you get elected. Execute a fake theater script. I have a hard time recollecting any promise from current administration that has not been broken. It has demanded varying degrees of sophistication (sometimes just not doing what was promised and sometimes creating tortured language in spurious bills).But he elected - he was. Twice.

Honestly why take it out on Obama - the signs were there early and plentiful.This is what you wanted - this is what you got. 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 05:54 | 5543387 rex-lacrymarum
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I dont think it has necessarily much to do with what anyone wants. Democracy is in many ways an illusion - anyone who is seen as representing a potentially serious challenge to the statist quo will never even get near a ballot. See e.g. how the media treated Ron Paul's initially quite impressive run in the primaries. Imagine what COULD have happened had they not drawn a veil of complete silence over his candidacy, interrupted only by the occasional smear. 

I personally think he would actually have stood a chance againt Obama, as contrary to Romney, he's not a photocopy of Obama in white. 

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 09:48 | 5539912 cro_maat
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The darkness of the Kali Yuga intensifies. Great work as always WB.

It is said that the Atlantean who came up with the concept of "Good" and "Evil" is still paying for his crime in Klipoth. We should really be making the distinction of "Evolving" and "Devolving". Currently the vast majority of this failed experiment that we call Earth are devovling. I wish them luck. I hear that Anubis will only consider Darma during negotiations. Fiat is not a coin of his realm.

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 09:50 | 5539926 old naughty
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cro,

+1

sigh !

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 10:16 | 5539910 ptoemmes
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Sometimes, WB7 stuff causes the weirdest flashbacks in me...and when you are as old as I am there are a lot of flashbacks that can flash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNb0iU1FdUA&spfreload=10

From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/justice-and-independence-85-lyrics-mellencamp...

He was born on the fourth day of July

So his parents called him Independence Day

He married a girl named Justice who gave birth to a son called Nation

Then she walked away

Independence he would daydream and he'd pretend

That some day him and Justice and Nation would get together again

But Justice held up in a shotgun shack

And she wouldn't let nobdoy in

So a Nation cried

CHORUS

Oh, oh

When a Nation cries

His tears fall down like missiles from the skies

Justice look into Independence's eyes

Can you make everything alright

Can you keep your Nation warm tonight

Well Nation grew up and got himself a big reputation

Couldn't keep the boy at home no, no

He just kept running 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round

Indpendence and Justice well they felt so ashamed

When the Nation fell down they argued who was to blame

Nation if you'll come home we'll have this family again

Oh, Nation, don't cry

CHORUS

Roll a rock across the country

Everybody come along

When you're feelin' down, yeah, yeah

Just sing this song, yeah yeah

Thu, 12/11/2014 - 09:33 | 5539869 weburke
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Does it work when the ruling families go to a priest to get forgiven? And what about the entire bureaucracies that work for them but dont know who they work for. All the cruelties, done for a fake theater script.

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