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A legal opinion (5.00 / 1) (#9)
by tnthorpe on Tue Oct 30, 2007 at 09:33:24 PM EST
from the AG allows things to happen. It is more than simply "advice." Jeesh, I mean you can't torture without permission even in America.

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A "legal" opinon?? (1.00 / 0) (#19)
by jimakaPPJ on Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 09:21:25 AM EST
It may be an opinion, and it may be legal, but it is not a "legal opinion."

Plainer. It could be an opinion that's not legal.

Let Congress get off its collective behinds and pass some laws rather than posturing.

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pathetic (5.00 / 0) (#31)
by tnthorpe on Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 12:25:03 PM EST
semantic dodges when what you need to do is realize you got it wrong, again.

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One more time (1.00 / 0) (#34)
by jimakaPPJ on Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 01:08:47 PM EST
It is the SC who interprets our laws.

The AG can issue all of the opinions he wants. Some may be legal, some may not.

But his job is run the DOJ and, sometimes, advise the President. The DOJ supposedly enforces the laws passed by Congress and held to be legal by the SC.

If the DOJ can show that a law has been broken, they can arrest and bring to court.

The Judicial Branch can then choose to let the person be tried, or cut him loose.

You only want Mukasey to declare waterboarding torture because it suits your politics to attack the war. I can think of several areas in which you would be very unhappy if the AG declared something illegal.

Stop you double standards and try some logic.

BTW - The President has several other lawyers who also advise him.

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oh brother (5.00 / 1) (#37)
by tnthorpe on Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 01:17:49 PM EST
get a clue, will you?

Read the torture memos and stop torturing me with your inanities.

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