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FrankRep
07-15-2010, 07:46 AM
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Fox Business Channel Host of Freedom Watch Andrew Napolitano has renewed a call for the indictment of former President Bush and Vice President Cheney for attacks on the U.S. Constitution in a July 12 C-SPAN interview with leftist consumer advocate Ralph Nader, even while the Obama administation commits the same crimes. by Thomas R. Eddlem


Judge Andrew Napolitano Renews Call For Indictment of Bush/Cheney (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/4040-judge-andrew-napolitano-renews-call-for-indictment-of-bushcheney)


Thomas R. Eddlem | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
Thursday, 15 July 2010


Fox Business Channel Host of Freedom Watch (http://freedomwatchonfox.com/) Andrew Napolitano has renewed a call for the indictment of former President Bush and Vice President Cheney (http://bit.ly/bBQkLE) for attacks on the U.S. Constitution in a July 12 C-SPAN interview with leftist consumer advocate Ralph Nader. “It was blatantly unconstitutional and in some cases criminal,” the former New Jersey Superior Court judge told Nader. “They should have been indicted. They absolutely should have been indicted, for torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrant.” Nader then followed up Napolitano's statement with a clarification question:



Nader: So you think George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should, even though they have left office, they haven't escaped the criminal laws, they should be indicted and prosecuted?

Napolitano: The evidence in this book and in others … is overwhelming, when you compare it to the level of evidence required for a normal indictment. George W. Bush as President and Dick Cheney as Vice President participated in criminal conspiracies to violate the federal law and the guaranteed civil liberties of hundreds, maybe thousands, of human beings.


The interview had been scheduled to promote Napolitano's new book, Lies the Government Told You (http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/reviews/books/3224-judge-napolitano-exposes-government-lies), as well as his new Saturday television show on the Fox Business Channel.

Napolitano's statement comes just as President Obama has continued Bush's detention policies, though Obama faces an avalanche of unfavorable court cases on detainees. While Obama has begun the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee (http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/07/13/judge-permits-us-trial-of-1st-guantanamo-detainee/), Tanzanian-born Ahmed Khaifan Ghailani, nearly eight years after he was first detained, in other cases the Obama administration has in other cases dragged its feet and – like the Bush administration – deliberately kept innocent people in prison as long as possible.

The Obama administration certainly did that with Mohammed Odaini, an eight-year detainee that officials concluded has been simply found in the wrong place at the wrong time. The 17-year-old Yemeni religious student studying in Pakistan was picked up by Pakistanis authorities and turned over to the U.S. most than eight years ago. “This is a bad case to argue. There is nothing there. The bottom line is: We don't have anything on this kid," an anonymous Obama administration official told the Washington Post for June 19. "The judge wants a progress report by June 25th. We have to be able to report something other than we are thinking about it.”

But the administration didn't have anything to report, so the judge ordered Odaini released (http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/07/14/innocent-student-finally-released-from-guantanamo/) on June 25 with the following summary of facts:



Respondents have kept a young man from Yemen in detention in Cuba from age eighteen to age twenty-six. They have prevented him from seeing his family and denied him the opportunity to complete his studies and embark on a career. The evidence before the Court shows that holding Odaini in custody at such great cost to him has done nothing to make the United States more secure. There is no evidence that Odaini has any connection to al-Qaeda. Consequently, his detention is not authorized by the AUMF [the Authorization of the Use of Military Force, passed by Congress the week after the 9/11 attacks, and used to justify the detentions at Guantánamo]. The Court therefore emphatically concludes that Odaini’s motion must be granted.


Despite the judicial order to release Odaini immediately, he wasn't released until July 14.

Why the 48-day delay? British journalist Andy Worthington reported (http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/07/14/innocent-student-finally-released-from-guantanamo/):



In order to release Odaini, the administration had to break a moratorium on repatriating any Yemeni prisoners, which was introduced by President Obama in January, in response to a wave of hysteria following the revelation that the would-be Christmas Day plane bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, had been recruited in Yemen.

Implicit in the moratorium was the unacceptable notion that all Yemenis were potential terrorists, but the President chose to ignore this so as not to make his life uncomfortable, and, in doing so, also ignored the fact that some Yemenis were going to win their habeas petitions while the moratorium was in place. If he had any doubt about this, he need only have consulted the final report of his own Guantánamo Review Task Force, which had concluded that, of the 97 Yemenis still held, 59 should be released.


The Obama administration has simply followed the Bush administration policy of holding detainees to the utmost extent they can, even flouting the rulings of federal judges. The Bush administration continued to hold 17 Chinese Uighurs for years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_detainees_in_Guantanamo) despite the conclusion of his own investigators that the Uighurs were innocent. Worthington concluded (http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/07/14/innocent-student-finally-released-from-guantanamo/) of the Obama administration's rationale in the Odaini case:



In other words, the Justice Department is arguing in court that the administration should be allowed to continue holding men that it has already conceded it has no reason to hold.


Bush and Cheney should be indicted, yes, but it's unlikely that the Obama administration — which is committing the same crimes against the U.S. Constitution — will be handing down the indictments.


SOURCE:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/4040-judge-andrew-napolitano-renews-call-for-indictment-of-bushcheney

FrankRep
07-15-2010, 07:59 AM
Judge Andrew Napolitano says Bush and Cheney should be indicted

YouTube - Napolitano says Bush and Cheney should be indicted.mp4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TosF6Ope53E&feature=player_embedded)

Working Poor
07-15-2010, 02:51 PM
Da Judge even has the libs attention now...

The Dude
07-15-2010, 03:27 PM
Kinda silly considering Obama should be held responsible for all the same things and yet the Dems wouldn't dream of indicting him.

Depressed Liberator
07-15-2010, 03:30 PM
Kinda silly considering Obama should be held responsible for all the same things and yet the Dems wouldn't dream of indicting him.

Gotta start with the source.

Matt Collins
07-15-2010, 05:50 PM
I sent this out to the local 912/Glenn Beck Meetup list. Needless to say it wasn't that well received ha ha ha ha ;)

Live_Free_Or_Die
07-15-2010, 05:58 PM
I sent this out to the local 912/Glenn Beck Meetup list. Needless to say it wasn't thatwell received ha ha ha ha ;)

Did you expect it to?

ninepointfive
07-15-2010, 06:05 PM
how about indicting the entirety of congress who voted for the "patriot act"?

ClayTrainor
07-15-2010, 06:30 PM
The Judge wreaks of pure unfiltered awesomeness.

KCIndy
07-15-2010, 06:35 PM
I love Judge Napolitano!!

He's treading on some dangerous ground here, though... I sure hope he's got some really good people watching his six. The Liberty movement can't afford to lose him!!

tropicangela
07-15-2010, 08:44 PM
I sent this out to the local 912/Glenn Beck Meetup list. Needless to say it wasn't that well received ha ha ha ha ;)

:D

freshjiva
07-15-2010, 08:51 PM
With the exception of Dr Ron Paul, the three strongest pro-Liberty personalities, in my opinion, are Judge Napolitano, Tom Woods, and Peter Schiff.

Seriously, the Judge is a baller. :D

Nate-ForLiberty
07-15-2010, 08:55 PM
With the exception of Dr Ron Paul, the three strongest pro-Liberty personalities, in my opinion, are Judge Napolitano, Tom Woods, and Peter Schiff.

Seriously, the Judge is a baller. :D

shot caller!

j6p
07-16-2010, 06:53 AM
Kinda silly considering Obama should be held responsible for all the same things and yet the Dems wouldn't dream of indicting him.

It's kinda silly that you say that, and that your new to the rpf. Bush started all this crap after 9/11, you can be a teaocon and sound stupid, when your facts are wrong. Yes, now it Obamas war, but he didnt start it.

HOLLYWOOD
07-16-2010, 07:23 AM
You indict and prosecute those two fascists, you'll have to prosecute about 400 congressional accomplices.

The aristocracy inside the DC Beltway protects one another that goes all the way to the SCOTUS.

Not gonna happen