Sheldon Whitehouse is on C-SPAN WJ to talk about Mukasey's testimony yesterday!

[in_cog_ni_to]

ON NOW!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. thanks for the heads up

[KharmaTrain]

2. Finally...A Democrat!!!

Could this show shill for the Moonie Times any more? The hour with their "editorial editor" was yet another example of C-SPIN's right wing bias. You sure don't see them give as much time to a "librul" publication like the Village Voice.

I'm also hoping someone calls in to ask Senator Whitehouse (I would love him to run for President just on the name alone) about his deal with Specter about telcom immunity/survellience bill.

Also...when the hell are they gonna move on those contempt citations?

[EFerrari]

3. Someone is right now! n/t

[KharmaTrain]

6. I Still Don't Trust The Senator From Scotland...

Magic Bullet Arlen...

:hi:

[EFerrari]

8. I hear he trained as a method actor.

:hi:

It's remarkable that people like Whitehouse are still under the impression that this is a nation and not just a cash cow for cronies.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. an excellent replacement for harry reid

[madokie]

15. we stand in unity on that one

[L. Coyote]

5. The Nuremberg Defense = TEXT exchange between Attorney General Mukasey and Sheldon Whitehouse

The Nuremberg Defense
by BarbinMD - http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/30/154358/393/62/446419
Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 02:40:13 PM PST


In an exchange between Attorney General Mukasey and Sheldon Whitehouse during today's Justice Department Oversight hearing, Mukasey, without admitting that it has ever happened, had an interesting defense of torture:

WHITEHOUSE: You are the top law enforcement officer of the United States and prosecutors do look back. Prosecutors do investigate things that have happened in the past. They do dredge up the past in order to do justice...Now the president has said that we will investigate, prosecute all acts of torture and you've just said today, "if someone is guilty of violating the laws of the United States," they get prosecuted...There is jurisdiction over the activity prohibited if the alleged offender is a national of the United States and a person who conspires to commit an offense under this section is subject to the same penalties other than the penalty of death..." So, we have a statute on point, you are, I believe, the sole prosecuting authority for that statute, correct?

MUKASEY: I am as the top of the Department of Justice, which is the sole prosecuting authority. <...>

When it comes to past conduct, one of the many questions involved in past conduct in addition to what was done, is, what authorizations were given, what authorizations were reasonably relied on. My current evaluation of the statute, if there is one, has only tangentially to do with that because if it has directly to do with that, then the message is, your authorization, you who did whatever you did, your authorization is good only for so long as the tenure of the person who gave it and maybe not even for that long...

...............

[Oilwellian]

7. I REALLY like him

He is sharp as a tack and a rising star in the Dem party.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. ME TOO! I'm hoping he'll run for Prez someday! n/t

[bdamomma]

13. that would be great, I voted for him in Nov 2006

feels great when your guy wins.

A Whitehouse in the Whitehouse!!!!!!!!!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

9. Whitehouse has impressed me since the first time I saw him in committee and continues

to do so. He is brilliant and I love how he thinks outside of the box. There is also something so attractive about him. Yum!

As to the Washington Journal..are they putting on more wrong wing idiots on to ask him questions than they normally have on?

[EFerrari]

11. He's handling them easily. Very impressive! n/t

[rucky]

17. Best of the freshman class!

and I say this with Brown as my Senator and Obama as my candidate.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. WOW! He supports Hillary Clinton for President....Now that is an endorsement!

Sheldon would never compromise himself and endorse someone he doesn't believe should be President.

[bdamomma]

16. he supports Hillary oh well he must have some good reasons

to endorse her.

[msongs]

14. talk without action is useless nt

[L. Coyote]

18. K & R

[Hidden Stillness]

19. I Love Sen. Whitehouse!

Sheldon Whitehouse is one of my favorite people in the whole Congress. Very impressive on several committees, not only questioning Mukasey and before that, Alberto Gonzales, but also that obstructionist asshole from the EPA that was just on a few days ago, before Sen. Barbara Boxer's committee. Great questions, a tough, "not fooled" attitude, and (like Ted Kennedy, for example), someone who can reach back into history and quote very beautiful, wise things from the people of the past. I never really paid attention to how great, how brilliant, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Robert Jackson was, until I heard several Sheldon Whitehouse references and quotations during Committee hearings of various sorts. A true moral force--it is wonderful to hear again.