Wonkette
- FUCK OFF AND DIE: Ahh, looks like our old friends still care deeply about the integrity of the Justice Department: “Former Bush administration officials are lobbying behind the scenes to push Justice Department leaders to water down an ethics report criticizing lawyers who blessed harsh detainee interrogation tactics, according to two sources familiar with the efforts. In recent days, attorneys for the subjects of the ethics probe have encouraged senior Bush administration appointees to write and phone Justice Department officials, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not complete.” [Washington Post]
There just are not adequate words to describe these people. Evil is too mild. We are so fucking lucky they didn’t destroy the world any more than they did (which is a lot).
Fuck! Dom Deluise died! What were we talking about again?
Hahahahah. Sorry, all you subjects of the ethics probe, but no.
We’ll see you mutherfuckers in the stocks; there in the public square. This is the actual purpose of an ethics probe.
I clicked over to the Post and inadvertently ended up reading Dana Milbank’s column about how Obama is basically just Jesus.
The Bushies should try to get some help with DOJ arm-twisting from a couple of characters from New Mexico who know how this kind of thing is done, Senator Pete Domenici (oops, former senator) and Representative Heather Wilson (oops, former representative).
Cape Clod: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hCJJnoKa-w1If6gMyZri_7KaI_MQD9805LVG3
“…who spoke on condition of anonymity because
the process is not completethey’re pussies.”/corrected, and no offense to actual pussies.
If the torture lawyers are so fucking sure that they’re so fucking right, why do they care about an ethics report? Shut the fuck up you pieces of shit. We’ll let you talk again when you’re sitting at the defendant’s table at the Hague.
Doglessliberal: I think of this:
“You’re the misbred, grey executive I’ve seen heavily advertised
You’re the great, gray man whose daughter licks policemen’s buttons clean”
Not adequate perhaps - but on the right track.
Just exile yourselves to Paraguay already.
Sorry pals, but the DoJ these days has some actual attorneys who went to real law schools, instead of hacks who graduated from Regents or Liberty University.
tunamelt: Are you saying he isn’t?
Lascauxcaveman: How about waterboarding, 6 times a day (oh, and in public would be good)? Because that is apparently not torture, just an A-OK way to get information from people.
Is dragging this out for a while and letting them all contemplate the fate that awaits them, is that itself a form of torture?
Lascauxcaveman: “Probe” is spot on. These sorry fucks need to be anally probed with an electric cow prod. Repeatedly, and with great fervor. Also.
Why are people who advocate the merits of torture so afraid of anything worse than a slap on the wrist?
x111e7thst: That’s good. Or
“Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith…”
Except I love that song and don’t want to taint it with those pieces of regurgitated tapeworm-filled dog shit.
V572625694: Please don’t burn me at the stake.
tunamelt: Drink deeply from this Kool-Aid trashcan, my friend, and all will become clear to you.
Damn straight the process is not complete. We need widespread investigations. Full disclosure. Arrests. Trials. Convictions. Long, long sentences. Then the process will be complete.
Doglessliberal: queeraselvis v 2.0: Well, my friends, once these folks are in the stocks, nothing is keeping you from bringing your garden hose, farming equipment, and whathaveyou for purposes of your personal entertainment
Not they’re going to get up and walk away.
This should turn out well…
magic titty: Because they are hypocritical pieces of shit.
Lascauxcaveman: Advice: Don’t use smileys in the middle of a paragraph if you care about syntax, punctuation, etc.
All you Southerners sing along:
“…Sinner ran to the rocks to hide his face,
But the rocks cried out “No hiding place!
There’s no hiding place down here…”
full story and a quote
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050502219.html?hpid=topnews
“Attorneys for both men did not immediately return phone calls or e-mail messages seeking comment on the reports. An e-mail to Yoo also received no response. The attorneys for the men, Maureen Mahoney and Miguel Estrada, had been trying to garner support for their clients by contacting former senior Justice Department officials to prevail upon their successors in the Obama administration, sources said. “
tunamelt: Yes, that.
..ring-ring!…ring-ring!…*click* Hello, this is the Justice Department. We’re not home, right now. If you are a former Bush Administration employee, please press ‘One’ and hold your breath while Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle’ plays in its entirety. Otherwise, press ‘Two’ to leave a message.
magic titty: well done.
TGY: thank you. I needed to laugh right about now.
Two of the authors, Jay S. Bybee, now a federal appeals court judge in Nevada, and John C. Yoo, now a law professor in Southern California, faced a deadline of yesterday to respond to investigators.
The best part about this is that the people they’re trying to get to soften the reports probably loathe them to no end. They’re either Bybee and Yoo’s former employees, who can’t stand them for subverting real justice, or their replacements who (I hope) wouldn’t dream of being nice to those freaking war criminals.
What’s up, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetches?
tunamelt: Damn, you weren’t kidding about the Milbank column.
Is this not following the time honored tradition of friends sending letters to the judge for someone who is guilty, but is such a fine person otherwise?
The purpose is to show how they are really good people after all, even if they did commit a crime. Happens all the time in USAmerica.
SayItWithWookies: Setting aside the laughable concept that throwing someone against a wall repeatedly, putting him in a box with spiders he is terrified of, and drowning hi 6 times a day is ethically OK, any lawyer who is mildly competent and/or intellectually honest cannot say, simply cannot, that this was legal. Just from a strictly legal analysis, this was ilegal six ways to Sunday (violates, among other things, a Treaty WE SIGNED). It is farcical to say this was legal. Just more of the baldfaced lies told with straight faces for the past 8 years.
It makes me nauseated.
ChernobylSoup: IT WAS REALLY CREEPY!
SayItWithWookies: that’s the part that just jumped out at me as well, why are these detestable war criminals still gainfully empolyed? And smugly not responding to investegators? Shit, I want laws like that.
They’re wasting their time. They need to talk to Jane Harman.
freakishlystrong: well, fucking A, the guy who wrote the memo is a Federal Judge!!
Doglessliberal: I signed a petition to impeach him, oh, wait, tiny little we VS THEM…
freakishlystrong: even if it is spitting into the wind, we have to try.
Doglessliberal: but but but but but what about the effectiveness?
Those fuckers should lose their bar cards and then be anally crucified. It still blows my mind that Yoo is actually teaching law students when obviously that fucker wouldn’t know a legal argument from a bag of cheetos.
Neocon bankers as the 911 AIPAC puppet-masters.
Uncle Sam or Uncle Tom?
Advocatus_Diaboli: I know. It makes me sick. MotherFUCKERS. Do not deserve to call themselves lawyers. My husband and I have outrage sessions every time one of these new revelations comes out (he is a lawyer, too). We are both fairly quaint in that we think the practice of law means something and the law is our religion, the trust our clients put in us something sacred. So when these Wormfucking Troglodytes come along and foul the profession. AND ARE REWARDED FOR IT. ARGH. I am exhausted from the outrage. I feel tapped out, and then …wait! There’s more…!
Perhaps they should seek solace in the original savior, fuckin’ Bob Jesus Zimmerman
Phone’s tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
they must bust in early May
Orders from the D.A.
Look out kid…
You don’t need a William Ayers to know which way the wind blows.
Doglessliberal: freakishlystrong:
Call and fax your Congresspeople and ask for torture prosecutions and impeachment for Bybee. Takes two minutes. Did it last week.
I can’t even joke about these people. The thought that they might never face any real justice after what they did makes me more than a little ill.
Ethics,lawyers and Bush in the same paragraph.Pure fiction.
Advocatus_Diaboli: I like your thinking, but you have me puzzled on the exact mechanism of anal crucifiction.