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Jonathan Turley: Getting Away With Torture?
On MSNBC last night, on the Rachel Maddow show : TURLEY: Somehow, he's equating the enforcement of federal laws - that he took an oath to enforce, to uhold the constitution, and our laws - and he's equating that with an act of retribution in some sort of hissy fit or blame game. You know, ...
Turley: We Need A Special Torture Prosecutor, Not Some Lame Commission
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — Jonathan Turley, the media-friendly George Washington Law School professor, who's an outspoken advocate of curbing executive power,... gave a bravura performance on MSNBC's Countdown last night, on the subject of possible torture prosecutions.  ... (more) Turley: We Need A Special Torture Prosecutor, Not Some ...
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The Sideshow — ... Jonathan Turley didn't pull his punches on Rachel's show when discussing Obama's reluctance to prosecute torturers. He even mentions impeaching Bybee, who is now a federal judge, but is better known as a torture memo-writer. ...

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