Here’s the lead of a HuffPo piece today, that links to a couple of more detailed articles very worth reading, but once again a situation that should incite tons of attention which will likely soon fall off the radar of whatever few have noticed it so far:

The New York Times reports this morning that according to recently declassified documents, the federal judge overseeing the case of Abu Zubayday was still seeking CIA tapes of his interrogation even as the government had the recordings destroyed[.]

As worthy of note as the story itself are some of the comments that HuffPo readers are leaving:

“Why are we subject to the law when so many are not?

How is it we go to jail and get tased just for speaking when other committ horrible crimes against humanity freedom and they do it all in OUR names with OUR money.

WTF!?”

“How can our courts keep americans encarcerted [sic] while these thugs run the world?”

 posted 10:56 am on 02/07/2008 “…this administration is the most corrupt in history. In hindsight their pledge to restore integrity to the WH was such a joke and so many dumb “family value” voters bought it. There has been no accountability in this adminstration – none. America the Great? – I think not “

 

“How many times must a man say “crime” before a government that has allowed itself to be submerged in criminal activity will finally take lawful action against it?
Here’s the bottom line:
We are all human. Every one of us. And it is human nature that, if we can get away with a crime, a certain percentage of us are going to do it. It is also human nature that, if you have access to an unlimited supply of coin-of-the-realm, you might develop an insatiable thirst for it.”

This is precisely what Dad predicted in his column 34 years ago, when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon.

More on that another time, when I have more time.

Peace.

Deborah Alicen