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The Dems Finally Do Something
Bowing to pressure from Democrats and human rights groups, the White House has withdrawn the nomination of John Rizzo to be the CIA’s top attorney after months of controversy over his role in the agency’s interrogation policy.
Rizzo, a career CIA lawyer, had drawn fire because of his support for Bush administration legal doctrines permitting so-called “enhanced interrogation” of terrorism detainees in CIA custody.
A senior official said Rizzo told President Bush he had decided to withdraw after concluding that the nomination would not succeed and that drawing out the process would not be helpful.
Rizzo remains a senior attorney at the CIA.
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2 Responses to “The Dems Finally Do Something”
Bush has caved a number of times lately. Obviously he is weak.
Lol yea, thats huge. They kept a CIA lawyer from getting a promotion. Let me warm up my golfclap. Bush didn’t cave, he just knows to throw some scraps to the other side every now and then.
“Hey, I let them not promote some guy at CIA who backs my policies.”
“Poor guy, probably has a family.”
“No, not fired, just not promoted. Lol, the dems are really happy to put one in the “Win” column for a change.”
“Good one sir. We are still going forward with the war, the torturing, jacking up the price of oil, letting associates get no bid contracts to service the war, screwing the middle and lower class, ignoring congressional subpoenas, burying habeus corpus and domestic spying on americans right?
“Of course. Wouldn’t want to look like we are getting soft would we?”