Tuesday’s Open Thread

Filed in National by on April 21, 2009

Obama Open to Prosecution of Interrogation Abuses (NY Times)

US Aims to Crack Down  on Credit Card Companies (LA Times)

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  1. nemski says:
    April 21, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    But in response to questions from reporters in the Oval Office, he said, “if and when there needs to be a further accounting,” he hoped that Congress would examine ways to obtain one “in a bipartisan fashion,” from people who are independent and therefore can build credibility with the public.

    Mr. Cheney, I’d be very worried.

  2. El Somnambulo says:
    April 21, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    This entire Jane Harman thing needs to break big. According to CQ, she was caught on tape courtesy of your NSA promising to try to deep-six an Israeli spy case:
    http://static.cqpolitics.com/harman-3098436-page1.html

    And according to today’s NYTimes, they had the story back in 2004, planned to run it before the election, but were ‘dissuaded’ from running it:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/politics/21harman.html

    Just one more reason why even the best papers are on the critical list.

  3. cassandra_m says:
    April 21, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Apparently, Dick Cheney hasn’t asked anybody to release any additional information about intelligence gained from torture.

  4. Unstable Isotope says:
    April 21, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    Cheney is just mad that he can’t selectively leak damaging information anymore. I say let’s look at all the torture papers, after all, Cheney wants to.

  5. donviti says:
    April 21, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    anyone think that this Torture thing was a trial balloon to see what the response would be by the citizens and then prosecute once they see how bad things are/were

  6. cassandra_m says:
    April 21, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    Don’t know about that, but I suspect not. The ACLU had an order from the court compelling the Administration to release the memos or explain why they wouldn’t. Don’t remember when the ACLU got their ruling but they’ve been fighting in court for these docs for 2 years or so. The Obama Administration was hard up against a deadline to do something. Repubs were threatening blackmail too — holding up a few DOJ appointees until they got a commitment to not release. While I think that Obama delivered on the promises he made here, I also think that he is not a guy who responds well to being forced to do anything.

  7. Unstable Isotope says:
    April 21, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    I think possible prosecutions are coming because of public pressure. I don’t think Obama wants to deal with it, but the outcry from the public and from Congress was too great to ignore.

  8. Unstable Isotope says:
    April 21, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    It’s time to start another apology watch: John Shadegg. Link

    Anyone want to take any bets on how long? I’ll take 48 hours.

  9. R Smitty says:
    April 21, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    Well, since it is an open thread, may as well point out Copeland’s take on Atkins beaching it.

  10. R Smitty says:
    April 21, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    Then, there was the er… response to Copeland.

    Note: geek was in awe over the skillz at play.

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