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Graham, Lieberman Will Shut Down Senate over Photos
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The dynamic duo is so oppose to transparency, and so ready to set extremely dangerous precedent of cutting the courts out of secrecy decision by legislative fiat, that they say the will shut down the Senate [sub. required] to see that the torture photos remain secret.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to hold up any and all legislation in the Senate until Congress passes its legislation to prohibit the release of photos showing detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We’re not going to do any more business in the Senate," Graham said. "Nothing’s going forward until we get this right."
We MUST support these brave Patriots!
Crossposted from Docudharma
The ACLU says that the photos show torture, in fact that they show torture that exceeds even the techniques that were approved in the Yoo-Bybee-Bradbury Memos. Meaning of course that even if the Memos did succeed in giving the legal cover that Cheney sought when he pressured Yoo-Bybee-Bradbury into tailoring them to the already extant Organized Program of Torture built and run by the Bush Administration.....Laws were still broken.
Fortunately, we have two Senators, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman who are so full of.......integrity, that they are willing to take the same principled stand that then House Speaker, serial adulterer and Family Values Republican Newt Gingrich so successfully took....SHUTTING IT DOWN!!!
BRINGING THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT TO A HALT
I, for one, agree.
As Kagro X (Now known as David Waldman, since going back to his "slave name") beat me to the punch in highlighting...
If the provision is eliminated, Lieberman and Graham said they would vote against the supplemental and any attempts to bring debate on the measure to a close. Graham predicted that most, if not all, of the 40 Senate Republicans would do the same, and Lieberman said he would be reaching out to Democrats on the issue as well. That could be enough to filibuster the supplemental measure on the Senate floor, because 60 votes are needed to end debate on a bill.
Shut down the government? Shut down War Funding?
Highlight the fact that they are covering up evidence of a crime
Now THAT is Change I Can Believe In!
Go, you Brave Patriots, GO!!!