I also wrote my Senator (Lugar) about this. I also got a very prompt reply where he danced around the issue by thanking me for my support of S.147 - a bill to ban torture. The Constitution and the Geneva Convention already does that. The problem isn’t that no law exists (and must be enacted) the problem is that no one will enforce the law that is already in place.

I too wrote back to my Senator (Lugar) elaborating that my concern was not passing a law, but holding those accountable that had violated existing laws – I too have recieved no reply.

Senator Lugar is sorely mistaken if he thinks I will just go away. If he will not reply, I will write him daily untill he does..if he continues to ignore me, I will write every newspaper in the State of Indiana with a request that he respond to my questions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050502884.html

snip 1 – President Obama’s passivity before the threatened foreign prosecution of Bush administration officials achieves by inaction what he fears doing directly. This may be smart politics within the Democratic Party, but it risks grave long-term damage to the United States. Ironically, it could also come back to bite future Obama administration alumni, including the president, for their current policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

snip 2 Spanish Magistrate Baltasar Garzón opened a formal investigation last week of six Bush administration lawyers for their roles in advising on interrogation techniques. Garzón did so over the objections of Spain’s attorney general, as he did in 1998 in proceeding against former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet. Under Spain’s inquisitorial judicial system, Garzón is essentially unaccountable, whatever the views of Spain’s elected government.

Snip 3 – Asked repeatedly about Garzón’s investigation, the State Department has said only that it is a matter for the Spanish judicial system. Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder went further, implying that the Obama administration could cooperate. “Obviously, we would look at any request that would come from a court in any country and see how and whether we should comply with it,” Holder said. This is deeply troubling. Obama appears to be following the John Ehrlichman approach, letting the U.S. lawyers “twist slowly, slowly in the wind.”

Snip 4 – Although the six lawyers are in a precarious position, they are only intermediate targets. The real targets are President Bush and his most senior advisers, and the real aim is to intimidate U.S. officials into refraining from making hard but necessary decisions to protect our national security.

Really stupid.

Oh. Right. That’s just what you do.

Not everyone here believes, behaves and manifests what you think.

Deal with that.

personally I think what Nixon did pales in comparison to what the DNC/Obama campaign did this past primary.

They seem to be working. We allow ourselves to buy into the idea that “something is going to happen”, while at the same time other things, such as looting the treasury in behalf of Wall-Street, “actually are happening behind the scenes”, unnoticed.

Your post is right on target!

We are witnessing, and will pay a great price for, masterful prestidigitation, unlike any we have ever seen.

Should be as simple as that. If someone broke the law they should be prosecuted. Let the chips fall where they may.

Bush on down. I don’t think the democrats where writing the policy. They may have had some kind of knowledge of something, although that is highly debatable, but it was not there bag.

We need this to prevent this from happening again and to bring some dignity back to this country.