Did anyone else get to see Joe Biden loose it a rip into Ashcroft yesterday?
Here's the situation. Senate hearing about rleasing "torture memos" to the Senate from Justice. Mostly random banter. Give us the memos. Ashcroft: No, executive privlidage, fuc[b][/b]k off...whatever.
The one publicly leaked memo so far:
http://www.npr.org/documents/2004/dodmemo030306.pdf
Then there's a five minute exchange where Ashcroft is explaining how it's legally ok to circumvent the Geneva Convention with the Gitmo detainees or whatever and Biden looses it.
Either Biden's a fantastic actor getting a nice peice of politcial grandstanding or he's realy on the verge. He grits his teeth and stares at Ashcroft for a second and says:
"Don't you GET it? The reason we have these conventions (against torture) at all is so that when MY SON (who is serving in Iraq) is taken prisoner there's SOME REASON for people not to torture him. Do you UNDERSTAND THAT?"