Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces.

Remember that story? Allegedly, prisoners captured shortly after 9/11, put )or stacked) in containers, left in the hot sun for days without water or food. Alllegedly the US troops would get annoyed enough by the screams and banging coming from the inside of the airless containers that they would shoot some holes, not to give the prisoners air, but to shut them up.

Oh and the reason "Obama administration officials" gave for refusing to investigate this well documented "alleged" war crime?

U.S. officials said Friday they did not have legal grounds to investigate the deaths because only foreigners were involved and the alleged killings occurred in a foreign country.

Oh whew, good, I was worried.  

United (well, really, O'Hare, where I won't fly through anymore) broke this band guy's guitar, and the airline refused liability, prevaricating for a year -- so the guy wrote this song and made this video, and it's had a million and a half hits already.  Hahahahaha.

Watching "The Practice" really had me going; the actors were riveting in a court room drama that involved a Psychoanalyst involved in a murder of his patient's husband. Perhaps you have seen it? Anyway in a leading role Dylan McDermott had a theory and played it out in the court room along with Steve Harris.

The Psychoanalyst was found to be in love with his patient, but as Dylan pointed out in Perry Mason Style committed the murder, with court room pressure and wound up shooting himself in the head right in the court room. Sheesh. The lawyers produced so much pressure the Head shrink couldn't take it any longer.    

I used to like to watch Perry mason drama's as you might guess...but here is a
Link for the stars on the program if you don't know, but I think most of you do know them.

 http://members.tripod.com/Vickie_Fernandes/imagegallery.html

Wouldn't it be interesting if the same pressure was put on the Bush administration about all this wiretapping stuff?

Please understand I have no legal training am rookie at this stuff but developed my own theory and feel with the right legal pressure would result in exposure of a wild crime scheme involved in Bush's secret endeavor, with high corporate friends will eventually spill the beans.

These "reports of possible Zelaya drug ties" have come from none other than the newly-minted Honduran "Foreign Minister" Enrique Ortez. He claimed in an interview that "Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds ... and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking."

Ortez? His criticism of Obama was a shade darker than much of what was said by Hillary cultists..  so as digby says

I think I finally understand why so many Republicans are backing the coup.

They love the guy cause he sounds just like them:

"He negociado con maricones, prostitutas, con ñángaras (izquierdistas), negros, blancos. Ese es mi trabajo, yo estudié eso. No tengo prejuicios raciales, me gusta el negrito del batey que está presidiendo los Estados Unidos."

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"I have negotiated with queers, prostitutes, leftists, blacks, whites. This is my job, I studied for it. I am not racially prejudiced. I like the little black sugar plantation worker who is president of the United States."

She is a complete elite confection. She might as well have been a bonbon.

[snip]

Really, she is the most careless sower of discord since George W. Bush, who fractured the party and the movement that made him.

but

The world is a dangerous place. It has never been more so, or more complicated, more straining of the reasoning powers of those with actual genius and true judgment.

so

... the Republican Party should get serious, as serious as the age, because that is what a grown-up, responsible party--a party that deserves to lead--would do.

Let's see if the question comes up about his litigious history when he is propped up by the GOP as a confirmation witness so that he can ask Sotomayer some tough questions.

Four knowledgeable sources tell NEWSWEEK that he [AG Holder] is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices, something the president has been reluctant to do. While no final decision has been made, an announcement could come in a matter of weeks, say these sources, who decline to be identified discussing a sensitive law-enforcement matter.

Such a decision would roil the country, would likely plunge Washington into a new round of partisan warfare, and could even imperil Obama's domestic priorities, including health care and energy reform. Holder knows all this, and he has been wrestling with the question for months. "I hope that whatever decision I make would not have a negative impact on the president's agenda," he says. "But that can't be a part of my decision."

newsweek

Spector, Nelson... et al are doing the math with this news..

moonie times