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Will Obama Prosecute CIA Officials or Won't He?

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der_ich4/22/2009 12:34:16 pm PDT

re: #326 looking closely

You miss the point.

Its ridiculous. These are professionals who did their legal homework and gave legal advice. Even if said counsel was wrong (and it almost certainly was NOT), since when is giving incorrect legal advice a prosecutable crime?

If there is any evidence of legal malfeasance on their part, then maybe it might be appropriate to have these lawyers sanctioned or disbarred, for it. Is there? Even one shred?

I think you make valid points but aren’t you giving those professionals and the officers a carte blanche to basically “advise” and do anything loathsome and immoral they find necessary or worthwhile ? What about - just to take it to an extreme - a legal advice to kill terrorist A to pressure terrorist B?