As far as I could tell, that "separation of powers" argument that the governor's legal team is trying to use to say he can't be subpoena'd?
Totally and entirely specious.
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Now, now... let us be fair... His legal team could not be billing him just *HOW* much per hour if'n they didn't at least get up there and say *something...* Denying them the chance to get up there and do that would be restraint of trade... or worse... if they couldn't stand up there and say it, they might spontaneously turn into mimes and do that "walking against the wind" stuff.
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But what I'm trying to say with that is, My Lai, as horrific as it was (and it was far more pervasive than just what came to trial, too, I got the impression), grew out of top-level indifference, mid-level incompetence, and a sense of futility at the closest levels to the action.
The Abu Ghraib business?
It's looking more and more like the absolute top levels came up with the direct idea of doing exactly what got done all the way down the hierarchy, with the argument "I think we have a loophole that lets us get away with this."
Now THAT is what I call depressing.
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Naw... depressing is that 80% of what happened at Abu Ghraib happens every year in the US at those locations euphemistically referred to as "teen sport camps," and is written off as "high-spiritedness" and "tradition" by a bunch of sloped foreheaded yahoos whose major claim to fame was being on the football or wrestling team in high-school...
Now now...
Totally and entirely specious.
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Now, now... let us be fair... His legal team could not be billing him just *HOW* much per hour if'n they didn't at least get up there and say *something...* Denying them the chance to get up there and do that would be restraint of trade... or worse... if they couldn't stand up there and say it, they might spontaneously turn into mimes and do that "walking against the wind" stuff.
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But what I'm trying to say with that is, My Lai, as horrific as it was (and it was far more pervasive than just what came to trial, too, I got the impression), grew out of top-level indifference, mid-level incompetence, and a sense of futility at the closest levels to the action.
The Abu Ghraib business?
It's looking more and more like the absolute top levels came up with the direct idea of doing exactly what got done all the way down the hierarchy, with the argument "I think we have a loophole that lets us get away with this."
Now THAT is what I call depressing.
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Naw... depressing is that 80% of what happened at Abu Ghraib happens every year in the US at those locations euphemistically referred to as "teen sport camps," and is written off as "high-spiritedness" and "tradition" by a bunch of sloped foreheaded yahoos whose major claim to fame was being on the football or wrestling team in high-school...
Now *THAT* is depressing...