Monday, April 27, 2009
Editorial: Impeach Bybee? What a joke
Politics is an ugly sport.
It's hard to believe that politicians spend so much time on being vindictive.
We all know there are better uses for that time...
It's hard to believe that politicians spend so much time on being vindictive.
We all know there are better uses for that time...
The Las Vegas Review Journal has this and more:
"Mr. Bybee, now a justice of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and a senior fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law, read and interpreted the law, as requested. There is no reason to believe he did anything but interpret -- to the best of his legal training -- what the law said. He wrote that using on the al-Qaida prisoners such techniques as simulated drowning, sleep deprivation, cramped confinement in boxes and other tactics do not constitute torture under the law.
Now, President Obama says Judge Bybee could be impeached for writing that 2002 memo.
On Tuesday, Nevada Sen. John Ensign called that prospect 'outrageous.'
'To call for him to be impeached when he was trying to give the proper legal advice is just ridiculous,' Sen. Ensign told the Review-Journal. 'You impeach people for ethical violations, for criminal violations. It would be like impeaching a member of Congress because they voted the wrong way.'"
