New from the Obama Justice Department: Any action is OK if the country is scared

Posted by Joel Friedlander | No Comments

Just a few days ago the lawyers who gave an OK to torture memo to the Bush Administration were cleared of any legal misconduct by high ups in the Justice Department.  Earlier, the ethics branch of the Justice Department found that they had indeed violated their code of ethics and had engaged in legal misconduct. The new finding was based upon the fact that everyone was very scared after 9/11 and the lawyers were pressured by the Bush Administration. In other words, since they and everyone was scared and they were pressured, it was OK to act unethically!  Duh!

These two men, one now a professor at a California law school and the other a Federal Court Judge with lifetime tenure, were allowed to be unethical by an administrator high up in the current administration. I am disgusted, especially since the current president was a professor of law before he went into politics!

As I read it, the laws of humankind don’t apply if the American people are scared.  It’s that simple.  Just be scared and 1,000 years of legal rules go down the drain.  What a message to send to our country and the rest of the world.

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