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Cornyn vs. Lindsay Graham on Holder
Topic Started: Jan 22 2009, 05:29 AM (95 Views)
QuirtEvans
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Senate Republicans delayed a vote on the confirmation of Eric Holder to become attorney general for at least a week in order to pressure him to say whether he will prosecute intelligence agents for torture if they were following orders and acting within what they believed to be legal guidelines.

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The question Republicans want answered before Holder is confirmed: Will you prosecute those who took part in that torture?

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said that he would block committee proceedings, scheduled to resume at 2:30 pm on Wednesday, if he did not receive answer from Holder. "I'm not going to allow things to proceed," he said. He added that it was "physically impossible" for Holder to get the answers to him by then, thus assuring a conflict would ensue.

Other GOP members of the committee, said Cornyn, are also concerned about the potential for prosecutions. The intent of the Military Commissions Act, he argued, was to provide immunity from prosecution if agents believed they were acting lawfully.

"Part of my concern, frankly, relates to some of his statements at the hearing in regard to torture and what his intentions are with regard to intelligence personnel who were operating in good faith based upon their understanding of what the law was," said Cornyn.

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Sen. Leahy said that Holder can't predetermine who he'll prosecute.

"I think no prosecutor should say, 'This is who I will prosecute and this is who I won't prosecute,' and he knows that as a former prosecutor," said Leahy of Cornyn's demand.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, agreed with Leahy that Holder can't rule out prosecutions before he becomes the top prosecutor.

"What I believe we should do is not politicize this, the idea of prosecutions coming from the hard left. Making a commitment that we'll never prosecute someone is probably not the right way to proceed, either," he said. "I think President Obama's administration is going to have a forward look on this, unless there's something egregious out there I think they'll move on. But no I don't expect him to rule it in or rule it out."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/21/senate-republicans-to-del_n_159740.html

Cornyn's trying to set himself up for 2012, it seems.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Someone has to. It isn't going to be Palin.
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QuirtEvans
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I'd keep my eye on Petraeus.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Mikhailoh
Jan 22 2009, 05:57 AM
Someone has to. It isn't going to be Palin.
I don't know, Mik. This piece is speculating she's still angling for it.

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Mark
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If they broke the law then prosecute them.

WTF is so hard about that?

Republicans need to stop acting like the government and those who work in the government can do not wrong. I thought Democrats were really the experts in that.
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Does this mean that John Cornyn actually admits there has been tortured ?

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Wim
Jan 22 2009, 01:37 PM
Does this mean that John Cornyn actually admits there has been tortured ?

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No it does not mean that. Try again.
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