so just goose step in line and stop asking questions traitor

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Justice Department Lawyer To Congress: ‘The President Is Always Right’

The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday heard testimony from Steven Bradbury,

head of the Justice Department’s office of legal counsel. When questioned by

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on whether the President’s interpretation of the

Hamdan case was right or wrong, Bradbury replied, “The President is always

right.†Watch it:

 

 

 

Full transcript below:

 

LEAHY: The president has said very specifically, and he’s said it to our

European allies, he’s waiting for the Supreme Court decision to tell him

whether or not he was supposed to close Guantanamo or not. After, he said it

upheld his position on Guantanamo, and in fact it said neither. Where did he get

that impression? The President’s not a lawyer, you are, the Justice Department

advised him. Did you give him such a cockamamie idea or what?

 

BRADBURY: Well, I try not to give anybody cockamamie ideas.

 

LEAHY: Well, where’d he get the idea?

 

BRADBURY: The Hamdan decision, senator, does implicitly recognize we’re in a

war, that the President’s war powers were triggered by the attacks on the

country, and that law of war paradigm applies. That’s what the whole case —

 

LEAHY: I don’t think the President was talking about the nuances of the law of

war paradigm, he was saying this was going to tell him that he could keep

Guantanamo open or not, after it said he could.

 

BRADBURY: Well, it’s not —

 

LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong?

 

BRABURY: It’s under the law of war –

 

LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong?

 

BRADBURY: The President is always right.

 

 

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