The speed with which the British are unwinding the mini terrorist-network and literally defusing a threat must be setting off five alarms insides the senatorial heads of the GOP's "we're-at-war" boosters, like John Warner, R-ubberstamp Virginia and Lindsey Graham, R-ubberstamp, South Carolina.
So far as we know, the British themselves have literally stared down a 'ticking bomb' threat, without the aid of a full blown, Cheney-Krauthammer tauted torture regime.
What's more, Britain will probably have criminal trials for the perpetrators of these vacant criminal acts, faster that Giuliani can say "war", "war", "war" tribunals and Giuliani's future Attorney General can say "tribunal".
In fact, why has the Bush Administration taken so long to bring so few to trial? For a while, I thought this was just confusion about how to proceed. Now, I'm wondering if it isn't because pending trials make it legally harder in some way that I don't know to actually investigate the detention and torture of those held, in the public interest. I mean, it seems easy enough to investigate a set of circumstances after a verdict, but is it harder when the State has yet to make its case, on the presumption that too much digging could be 'prejudicial' to an ongoing something-or-other?
Who knows, but someone at the Supremes seems to think that "the laws' delay", to quote Shakespeare, has reached new heights of seriousness in America under the cavalier Bush Administration.
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By the way our torture President just came out to tell us (via the cameras) what is "right" and "wrong". It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Ticking Bomb, No Torture - Alarming, Lindsey Graham, Isn't It?
