Fox legal analyst: Bush & Cheney Should Have Been Indicted for Torturing, Spying &

[kpete]

Andrew Napolitano: Bush and Cheney Should Have Been Indicted for Torturing, for Spying and Arresting Without Warrants
By Heather Monday Jul 12, 2010 5:30am

Napolitano: Well that is so obviously a violation of the natural law, the natural right to be brought before a neutral arbiter within moments of the government taking your freedom away from you. And the Constitution itself, as the Supreme Court in the Boumediene case pretty much said, wherever the government goes, the Constitution goes with it and wherever the Constitution goes are the rights of the Constitution as a guarantee and habeas corpus cannot be suspended by the president ever. It can only be suspended by the Congress in times of rebellion which in read Milligan says meaning rebellion of such magnitude that judges can't get into their court houses. That has not happened in American history.

So what President Bush did with the suspension of habeas corpus, with the whole concept of Guantanamo Bay, with the whole idea that he could avoid and evade federal laws, treaties, federal judges and the Constitution was blatantly unconstitutional and is some cases criminal.

Nader: What's the sanction for President Bush and Vice President Cheney?

Napolitano: There's been no sanction except what history will say about them.

Nader: What should be the sanctions?

Napolitano: They should have been indicted. They absolutely should have been indicted for torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrants. I'd like to say they should be indicted for lying but believe it or not, unless you're under oath, lying is not a crime. At least not an indictable crime. It's a moral crime.

Nader: So you think George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should even though they've left office, they haven't escaped the criminal laws, they should be indicted and prosecuted?

Napolitano: The evidence in this book and in others, our colleague the great Vincent Bugliosi has amassed an incredible amount of evidence. The purpose of this book was not to amass that evidence but I do discuss it, is overwhelming when you compare it to the level of evidence required for a normal indictment that George W. Bush as President and Dick Cheney as Vice President participated in criminal conspiracies to violate the federal law and the guaranteed civil liberties of hundreds, maybe thousands of human beings.

more:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/38320
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0712/fox-legal-analyst-bush-indicted/

[Possumpoint]

1. Loved Watching That Show Yesterday

However, it was very upsetting to listen to all of the lies and broken laws with nothing being done about it.

[slipslidingaway]

2. knr n/t

[gratuitous]

3. No statute of limitations on war crimes and crimes against humanity

We'll see if the United States can continue to keep its lock on Undisputed Leader of the World status. Because if we slip even the slightest, we might just be at the mercy of those folks John Bolton hates so much.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[SpiralHawk]

6. "Sneer." -xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread, kpete.