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ACLU Lawsuit Prompted A Federal Judge To Examine The Controversial Document
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- Hey, Captain Bushy, this is the first step toward "walking the plank" to a sentence for War Crimes, and it couldn''t happen to a more evil person!
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- mbcsmith, wouldn''''t the people be the clients in this situation,since it is our tax dollars that pay for the CIA? Should we not be allowed to see what we have payed for?
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Posted by kaviz at 09:25 AM : May 09, 2008
By that logic, we should have seen all Clinton/DOJ communications regarding private individuals suing a sitting president. PROTECTED. - Reply to this comment
Attorney-client privilege is a legal concept that protects communications between a client and his or her attorney and keeps those communications confidential. A Department of Defense memo is not a client/attorney communication.
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Posted by dinkydog1 at 09:20 AM : May 09, 2008
Legal opinion written by the Dept of justice. The attorney client privilege extends to legal opinions from DOJ lawyers to the CIA.- Reply to this comment
- Just as the Nazis tried to hide behind the "legality" of the Nuremburg Laws and the Nazi Laws which made murder and torture and buthery legal so do the Reds in America, our own home grown American fascists seek to justify their atrocities as being "legal." What garbage they spew. Don''t give us that client/attorney *** for you cannot hide your dark deeds behind your big mouths.
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- mbcsmith, wouldn''t the people be the clients in this situation,since it is our tax dollars that pay for the CIA? Should we not be allowed to see what we have payed for?
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- Any legality? You mean like attorney client privileged information. LIBS just don''''t get it.
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Attorney-client privilege is a legal concept that protects communications between a client and his or her attorney and keeps those communications confidential. A Department of Defense memo is not a client/attorney communication. - Reply to this comment
- "We think that the public has a right to see the documents that provided a basis for the CIA''''s torture program," This sentence really say it all dosen''''t it? The reds are so ashamed to let the rest of the world see how low we have sunk they will hide behind any legality to keep us in the dark.
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Posted by dinkydog1 at 08:46 AM : May 09, 2008
Any legality? You mean like attorney client privileged information. LIBS just don''t get it. - Reply to this comment
- "We think that the public has a right to see the documents that provided a basis for the CIA''s torture program," This sentence really say it all dosen''t it? The reds are so ashamed to let the rest of the world see how low we have sunk they will hide behind any legality to keep us in the dark.
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- If you are into pain then go whip yourself and pluck out your fingernails and then wonder at what the hell you are doing to yourself and why would anyone do this to any human being? Moreso, what the heck are we gaining from this except a perverse sense of power coming from ones own sense of being a creep.
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- WE DO NOT PROTECT OURSELVES BY BECOMING AS EVIL AS OUR ENEMIES FOR THEN WE BECOME AS THEY ARE. SOON ENOUGH WE TURN THE EVIL RELEASED UPON OURSELVES AS HAPPENED IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA AND A HOST OF OTHER ROTTEN NATIONS. WAKE UP NEOCONS FOR YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF AMERICAN LIBERTIES AS MUCH AS ANY TWO BIT TERRORIST.
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- How is this judge writing the law by allowing US citizens to see a memo written by our government officials?
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Posted by dinkydog1 at 08:03 AM : May 09, 2008
He apparently doesn''t believe in attorney client privilege which is established law. - Reply to this comment
- Neo-con Republicans come across as Slave holders so sure that the use of the whip and the rabid dog is a just and Christian practice..so long as it is pracitced on another.Such a Red State mentality.
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Posted by johnpatrick9 at 08:20 AM : May 09, 2008
LIBS are more concerned with protecting terrorists than the citizens of the U.S. They have no idea how to protect this country. - Reply to this comment
- At this rate, Shrub, Darth and their Neocon Nazi pals ought to be insome serious hot water for their crimes sometime in the next millennium.......take your time, Demowhimps......no rush......
Posted by veteran72 at 12:31 AM : May 09, 2008
This is a result of a separate lawsuit. - Reply to this comment
- Neo-con Republicans come across as Slave holders so sure that the use of the whip and the rabid dog is a just and Christian practice..so long as it is pracitced on another.Such a Red State mentality.
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- Those who are for torture should be tortured. IT MAY CHANGE THEIR VIEW ON TORTURE AS A GOOD THING.
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- Once again we have a judge who is going to write law when in fact the judge does not have authority to do so. The judge is to determine the facts and render a decision, it is not to make laws. Probably a graduate from the Social Democratic College of Good Feelings; Obama, Ted and Hillary are all graduates.
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Posted by CARJENBE at 07:47 AM : May 09, 2008
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How is this judge writing the law by allowing US citizens to see a memo written by our government officials? - Reply to this comment
- "Beware that when you go to fight the Devil that you do not become one yourself." Nietzsche
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- Torture whether practiced by the Inquisition, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Russian Commissars, Latin Dictators, Muslim fanatics or American soldiers or intelligence agents is always to be considered an atrocity and a crime...no fancy vocabulary or legal fine points can mute the ugliness of these reprehensible acts. Those who torture another are scum and those who support the torture are scum as well and worthy of the hangman''s noose for their crimes against humanity for they have forfieted their right to live among us. We did it to the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese and the same fate should be put upon those who practice it here under a phony patriotism.
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- Once again we have a judge who is going to write law when in fact the judge does not have authority to do so. The judge is to determine the facts and render a decision, it is not to make laws. Probably a graduate from the Social Democratic College of Good Feelings; Obama, Ted and Hillary are all graduates.
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- I say that if there is to be torture, let%u2019s be the best at it. If someone is not torturing according to the instructions in the Bush-Gonzales manual we need more funding for better torture training. We should set the international standards for torture perhaps even start some training camps, or better yet college level courses and award degrees. God knows everyone has already completed Torture-101 reading Abu Graib reports over past few years. May be we can even create a Noble Prize for Torture! Who would be awarded first?
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