by anderson
Bipartisan constitutional gang-bangers on Capitol Hill continued their drive-by policy shootings yesterday, as the Senate voted to block release of the prisoner abuse photos that the Obama administration has also sought to block.
The Senate passed by unanimous consent Wednesday a bill that would prevent the release of controversial photos of alleged U.S. abuse of prisoners and detainees.
The bill, sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent, and Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, had originally been part of the war funding supplemental bill passed Tuesday by the House.
But House Democrats stripped that part of the measure from the bill, and the senators proposed it as stand-alone legislation.
Earlier Wednesday, Graham said at a Judiciary Committee hearing that he had received assurance from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel "that the president will not let these photos see the light of day."
You've got to hand it to Lindsay Graham, however, for what must be the most disputatious and utterly dishonest statement I've seen recently.
After all the evidence we've seen that the direction and planning for the torture program emanated from the White House, and especially the VEEP's office, and with the latest news that legal memos were specifically drawn up to permit the torture of a single individual, Linsday Graham told the press that the photos ought not be released because,
"The people involved in Abu Ghraib and other detainee abuse allegations have been dealt with."
He neglected to finish that sentence with a hearty,
Ha! I mean, the people occupying the lowest rung of the chain of command have been dealt with, which is sufficient for my own murky notions of accountability."
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