{"id":17590,"date":"2010-02-21T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17590"},"modified":"2010-02-21T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T15:23:04","slug":"interrogator-camerino-plays-lawyer-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17590","title":{"rendered":"Interrogator Camerino plays lawyer, fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last week, the Justice Department announced that it probably didn’t have a reason to prosecute the White House legal team upon whose opinion the Bush Administration built their interrogation policy. As lawyers argue from their particular point of view, DOJ’s mind seems to be made up. This from the Washington Post<\/a>; <\/p>\n

“When you combine all this with the threat reports that were being done and everything, I don’t know whether anyone crossed the line,” former department lawyer Jack Goldsmith said. “I certainly couldn’t say that myself. I don’t even know what the standard is.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, since at least some of the discussion is about interrogation, Anthony Camerino<\/a>, formerly known as Matthew Alexander<\/a>, thinks he has something important to say on VoteVets<\/a> and the Huffington Post<\/a>; <\/p>\n

When I took the oath as a military officer, I don’t remember any mention of sunny or dark days. I swore to support and defend the Constitution and to faithfully discharge my duties on all days. Isn’t this the essential element of leadership? A ship doesn’t need steering when the river is its steady guide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What part of the Constitution covers interrogations, Tony? And since when have you become a lawyer? Because countless lawyers can’t agree with each other, why does a interrogator suddenly think he has the education to make policy for the administration? Getting paid by the George Soros Foundation<\/a> and the ACLU<\/a> doesn’t make you a legal expert.<\/p>\n

Camerino’s opinion is based purely on his pocketbook. Camerino gets paid to have the opinion that what the Bush Administration engaged in was torture. How else could a major in the Air Force afford to pay cash for a $300k condo on Capitol Hill? I also wonder how, if he disagrees so vehemently with the government, he’s accepting a promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and planning to deploy to conduct interrogations this summer. <\/p>\n

I also have problems with the Air Force for those exact same reasons. Do they think so little of the troops on the ground, that they’d put a Soros-funded, ACLU-trained pseudo-lawyer to be in charge of a unit of interrogators? The man is obviously a self-serving boob, so what scares the Air Force?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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